WAKANUI ROAD BOARD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1279, 3 July 1886, Page 3

WAKANUI ROAD BOARD

The ordinary monthly mooting of the Wakanni Road Hoard was held at t e Board’s iffico, Moore street, to-day. Present:—Messrs M Bruce (Chairman), W. T. Bill, J. Brown, and G. Cole. CORRESPONDENCE.

Letters were road ; (1) From the Coui.ty Council, notifying that as it was tl e Council's intention to supply poisoned grain the grant of Is G i for heads and ergs of small birds would be discontinued. (2) Fiom the New Zealand R eform Rail wry League forwarding ;.eti'ion for signature —The ( h >irman was authorised to slg the petition on behalf of the Board an I, on the motion of Mr Liil, it was decided 10 forward the petition to the member for the distnc;. (3) From Mrs Gibson, stating that tho fence which the Board had noified her to remove, as encroaching on the road line, was erected acco-din; to a tracing supplied to her. Withaview tnemicablysettling the matte-»ho -lakcd theß -ard to hive survey mad*-. - The Surveyor state 1 he had bein io com mmicati m with the

, Chief Surveyor, who had r-spl oil th.v the fenca was encroaching on tlui ro d —After a lengthy discussion the Chrlrniao moved 4 —" Tha' the Board adhero lo its formnr resolution on tlio pubject."—.Mr 0 ,\e I seconded. —Mr Bros?ii moved as nn amendment—-' Tint a competent Surveyor be omp'ojed to decide whether .Mrs GM - eon's force is erected in accordance with the p'.-va supplied to her." The amendment not being seconded lapsed, and 'he incti'n w;scarried, Mr Brown dissenting. (4) From the Survey Offiie, Ohristchurch. in re-ply to a letter the Board, stating that a certain road was a Government road. - Mr Brown mentioned sevorat roads in the district which ho said wese of no use, and should bo done away with —After a brief discussion the mat ter w«s deferred until next nvet icg, the Surveyor in the meantime to communicate with interosted persons to ascertain thdr willingness or otherwise to concur with the course suggested by Mr Brown. (5) From Mr J. Brown Chairman of the public meeting recently held f.t Wakanui, forwarding resolutions passed at that meeting with regard io the taking of wat r from the riv?r for the Wakanui Mil l .—ln reply to Mr B-owd, I the Surveyor stated he had a report on ' ihe subject, and it was decided to defer the matter until htcr in the moetiog. DEPUTATION. Mr Leadley waited on the,Board and said that his access to a road past his property w?s cut off by a drain, and he requested sufficient timber lo erect a bridge or culvert. The matter was deferred until -iftor consideration of the Surveyor's report. surveyors' report. The Surveyors' report was read as follows: (1) Wakanui Station road: Immediately after our inspection before last meeting, and which we reported as not being commenced, the contractor started at work on this road, and has just completed it.—(2) Hampton road; The contractor for forming road has completed his work, but owing to his not having ' thoroughly levelled it, we directed him to j have this done before a final certificate could be granted. He is now finishing it off (3) Footbridges, Wakanui School road : The i footbridges authorised at last meeting have been erected. The gorse has been cleared , out of the drain between the school grounds and the gully.—(4)-Wilson's road; We are < having the damage caused at the junction of this and McGuiro's road repaired.—(;">) Intake, Wakanui Mill race : We inspected this . as directed at last meeting, and find that the stream is setting in against the bank, and - causing a scour. This at present only causes I loss to the owner of the section, and might be easily remedied. We found the flood gate in bad repair, and notified to the County Council the Board's wish that precautions Should be taken to prevent an undue quantity coming this way in tho event of floods, and probably damaging the roads. (6) Drain between Messrs Wilson's and ' Wright's : This drain evidently carries a considerable quantity of storm water, and to be 1 suitable for the purposo it is intended requires widening about four feet aDd swing panels erected at junction with road. The cost would be about £l4. We might say that this storm water does not damage the road, land the drain ■would give moro relief - to the owners of sections adjacent than to the road. As widening the drain would take ] more laud for both drain and tho spoil taken f out, it is probable compensation would be asked for land taken.— (7) Leadley's road : We have examined tho approach to Mr Ben- ] tinck's land, and consider that a ford could be made in lieu of bridge.—(B) The maintenance man has been employed in No. 2 ward. His diary lies on the table. INTAKE WAKADUI MIIT,. With reference to this matter tho Chairman ssid he thought tho Board had done all in its po\*r iu bringing the j question under the no l .ice of tho County Com cil. A short conversation a'' discussion ensued j between the Chaiimm and Mr Brown, the latter expressing his op'nion that great damage would poasibla result unless something were done. Ho did not think the Board should wait until a flood came down tho riverand did irreparable damage. He| moved "That unless the sluice in the Wskanui Mill raco ba at once put in pr to the theSur veyor the race, a-ross the Bjach road, be stopped by tho Roard " Mr Lill and tha Chairra in thought it would be outside the B ard'a sphere of ac'ion to taWe such .-. p.o.ecding. < A short desu't cy >:i took place, in the c urse of whiih Mr Brown said thM unless Eonvthin;> wore done tha sett -era whose pr. sperti. a were jeopardiesd - wouli set the Couti y C luncil at defiance at;d take the matter in the ir rwn hands At this tha Su-veyor read the letter he had »dd o-«ed tn the County Conr.cil on the suhjec* Mr C le teconded Mr Brown's motion. The Chairman suggested that Mr Brown should strike out the wc.rds in his resolution with regard to stopping the race Mr I.ill moved as an amentlraont that in view of probable damage to roads the Council's attention be again cilled to the unsatisfactory state of the fl lod-gates to the intake of the Wakanui Mill race and they be requested to attend lo the same {without delay."—The Chairman

seconded. Me Brown w hla motion in favor of that of Mr Lil>, which was then put to the meeting and carried. buttekick's BIaD. It wai resolved la f°rcl across drain qu 111 is road to affjrd access to Mr Batterick's property. FLOOD WATER. It vt»3 decided to undertake the neceaj saty work to relieve Mr Bonnifaut's [ property of Btorm water. DEFECTIVE KOEDS. It was decided to draw tho County Council's attention to the sta'e of certain fords on Wilson's Boad and to the damage cone on Seaside road by water-race. UKFOIMRD BOADS. Mr LiU moved " That the Surveyor be instructed to report on tho cost of plough- I ing roads in tussock, in No. 3 Ward and sowing the Eame in English grass. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS IMr F. T. Mayo, Chairman of the Hakatere Town Board, waited on the Boaid with reference to a settlement of accounts between the two districts A statement was laid on the lable showing a credit balance in favor of the Town Board of ] £lO 9s 2d. It wt 3 decided to supply Mr Mayo with a, copy of the statement, land he having promised to lay the same before his withdrew. iM.TraqsNT/s.

The usual monthly account having bean pasted for payment, the Board adjourned.

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