PIGEON BAY ROAD BOARD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 461, 21 December 1880, Page 2

PIGEON BAY ROAD BOARD.

A special meeting of this Board was held in their office last Saturday. Present —Messrs Hay (Chairman), Pettigrew, Budua, and Pitcaithly. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Three subjects occupied the chief attention of the Board:—l. What course it ought to follow, seeing the Government hfid refused, without reasons given, to preclahn the road through Holmes' Bay, in opposition to the report of their own engineer, who had decidedly reported in favor of the route proposed by the Board.

It was proposed by Mr Pitcaithly, ' seconded by Mr Budua and carried—That the Chairman ehoiild in the first place wait upon Messrs Joint, and Perceval, the Boards legal advisers, and upon W.Montgomery, Esq., M.H.R., regarding the matter. 2—As to the Rate Roll for 1881, it was agreed to accepi the offer of Mr A. I. McGregor, of Akaroa, to prepare it, it being understood that it should be ready within the statutory time. The Clerk was directed to intimate this resolution to Mr McGregor. 3.—The next matter for consideration was the state of the sea-wall erected by Mr Woodill. It was decided after the members present had seen the damage recently done by a tide and wind unusually high, to employ men to repair at once what demanded instant looking after. Beyond the letters from the Public Works Office and from Mr McGregor, referred to above, and a letter from the Board* engineer Tendering his account (which was passed), there was no correspondence.