PIGEON BAY ROAD BOARD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 147, 14 December 1877, Page 2

PIGEON BAY ROAD BOARD.

A meeting of the above Board was held pn-Saturday, December, Ivi ' .'I. Present—Messrs Gillespie (chairman), Budua, Pitcaithley, and M'Kay. correspondence. From Mr James M'Laren, notifying that he had given up the contract for the new road to Mr Cross. From the Commissioner of Crown Lands, respecting tbe road to M'lntosh Bay. ; s|lr- M'Cardell,-. of Christchurch, enpjQsing'Acconnt-for £13 10s for map of : d,isirici' j^, t . ,•"',;' ■- ; :.:- From Mr Pettigrew, offering to purchase the grass seed on the main road. From Messrs Lyell and M'Kay, calling the board's attention to the rough state of the metal pn the road between the sawmill and Mr Cross'corner, and requesting the board to have the said portion of road blinded with clay. Proposed by Mr Budua, and seconded by Mr K'Kay—" That the line of road surveyed by Mr Welch through Mr Pitcaithley's property be accepted as the main line of road to M'lntosh Bay." Carried. The clerk wa3 directed to forward a copy of the above resolution to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, also an extract of minutes of meeting held on the 19th ult. re the same, and to request that the lines of-road surveyed by Messrs Lewis and Graham, surveyors, be erased from the map of the district. Also, to forward Mr M'Caidell a cheque for £13 10s in payment of ( his account, and to write to Messrs Preece and Pitcaithley, informing them of the award of arbitrators re the closing of llie road through their property, and asking them if they are willing to accept Ihe land on those terms, the amount of the award being. £50 an acre. With regard to Messrs -M'Kay and Lyall's application, it was resolved—" That the work be left in the hands'of the chair- , man." "■■- ■'■ : ,,.i j Resolved—-" That Mr Pettigrew's appli-

The clerk of the Port Levy Road Board, on behalf of Mr Fleming (the chairman of that board), had an interview with this board, and stated thai, the Port Levy Road Board had nominated Mr D. G. Ward as surveyor, to lay out the projected line of road between Pigeon Bay and Port Levy. Resolved—"That tenders.he invited for the surveying of a new line of road between Pigeon" Bay and Porl Levy, and that MrFenlon he requested, subject to the approval of the Port Levy Road Board, to draw out specifications for the same, copies of specifications to be left ai the Pigeon Bay and Port Levy Road Board offices respectively by the lllli inst., tenders to be sent in on or before. Ibe 31st inst." The clerk wa3 directed to write to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, stating the decision thus arrived at by the Board. PAYMENTS. £ s. d. Mr. M. Barclay, for labour done 16 2 0 Mr H. Si-Hale, do do ... 6 0 0 TENDfiRS. Tenders were opened for the new line of road to Messrs Cross and Budua's. Messrs Smith and Barclay's, for the whole work (£62 10s), was accepted. In reply to an application from Mr E. Goodwin, requesting the board to have some timber felled on the line of road adjoining his hill beciions, the clerk was directed to write to Mr Goodwin, staling that the board could not entertain his application, the mailer not being of sufficient public importance.