OKAIN'S DISTRICT ROAD BOARD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 400, 4 June 1880, Page 2

OKAIN'S DISTRICT ROAD BOARD.

Saturday, May 29.

A meeting of this Board was held on the above date, at the Library, Okain's Bay. Present — Messrs Moore (Chairman), O'Callaghan, Bennett, Oldridge, and Barnett. minutes. The minutes of the last meeting were read and coufirmed. v CORRESPONDENCE. Letters were read— From the residents in Little Akaioa, requesting the Board to form a road from their district, as at present they were completely blocked in, stating that Mr 1 hacker had, two years previously, offered to give them a road through his land on condition that the Board fenced it, but since that time nothing had been done in the matter. The Chairman agreed to see into the matter, and to that end would confer with Mr Thacker. allocation of funds. Tlie Clerk stated, in reply to a question put to him, that no reply had been received to his letter to the County Council Agarding the allocation of the funds belonging to the Road Boards Fund. new road. , Mr O'Callaghan stated Chat he had called for tenders to form a road to lead to Ms residence, and requested that Mr Whitfield's tender of #10 for the work be accepted. The Board were of opinion that there were more urgent needs, especially as regarded the people of Little Akaioa, and declined to grant the request. carriage drive. Mr Bennett asked permission to erect a gate across a bye-road entering the carriage drive, Le Bon's Bay, in order to prevent his cattle from wandering. The Board decided that they had no power to grant such permission. RATES. The Clerk read a statement ot all unpaid rates to date. He was instructed to take proceedings against all defaulters. With regard to John Smith, a judgment summons was to be issued without furtner delay. little akaloa bridge. Tenders for the erection of a new bridge at Little Akaioa were opened, and that of J. Shuttleworth for £24 was accepted. WAIKEBAKIKARI ROAD. Mr J. Wright's tender of Is 9d per chain for the clearing of the road from Waikerakikari to Le Bon's was accepted. PANAMA ROAD. The work on the Panama road not being completed for the sum of £10 as voted at last meeting, it was resolved that the remaining work should be done by day labor. PAYMENTS. The Clerk's salary, J. B. Barker's contract for £40 for Pawson's road, and sundry other small accounts were passed and paid. The meeting then adjourned.