Lake County Council.
The ordinary monthly meeting of above hod? was ■•ld in th« Council Chamber*. Que*n«town, on Monday the Ist instant Present Messrs C. P. Boy*s (chairman), J. Aspinall. J. Butement. F. H. Daniel, A. H. Douglas, W. Jenkins, F. M'Bride snd R. Pritchsrdv

Minutes of previous meeting were read and con* Armed.
Before the reading of correspondence, the Chair ■an said he saw by report in the Duntian Time» that the Vincent County engineer was too busy to lay off at present the proposed mad between Pembroke and Matokitnki m Glendhn Bav. Wanaka. for which road Government hail promised £IOOO. He suggested that Mr Park, of Park Bros , Dunedin (who waa in Qn«enstown), he called in and asked what his firm would lay iff the aork for. a« Government had expressed a wish that the Council would submit the name of some competent engineer to do the same. Mr Park attended the Council, and after an explanation of the matter, sent in at a later stage an approximate extimate of £OS for laving off and drawing up plans and specification* for the road. It was resolved, on the Motion of Messrs Douglas and Daniel— That this Conncil approves of Messrs Park Bro* , Dunedin. a* competent engineer*, and that their name* he »üb nitt«d to Government for the taring off, etc., of pro posed road, Pembroke to Matukituki. CORRESPONDENCE.
