The Chairman felt inclined to-take Mr. Grigg’s view of the matter and'to think the borough had no claim whatever. He explained that really the accrued land fund was not, the property of the Road Boards, but the property of the County, and the money given to the Road Boards -wa3, therefore, only a vote to them. It was not absolutely imperative r. on: the Council to give this money in 1 cash, but they had done so, so that actually the borough had no legal claim on the land fund. He had no wish that the borough should think the • County was acting harshly with them. The borough could not think thus, in view of what the Coun cil had done for the township in the past. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Bullock said the sections sold in the township had realised a very large sum of money, and the share of proceeds had not been paid to the borough, but to the County Council. The claim of the Borough, he thought, ought to be referred to the Longbeach Road Board, which had obtained its share of this money. Mr. Grigg denied that the money for these sections had been paid into the County Council. The County had no con trol whatever over the municipality. The municipality obtained their 20 per cent, in sections, and it would be absurd to ask a double payment. He felt quite sure that, had the Ashburton Road Board known the full facts of the case, they would not have recognised the claim of the borough at the time they did.
