AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue VI, 27 December 1881, Page 3

AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD.

A meeting of this Board was held on jSaturday. Present — Messrs Cbappell, Brooks, and C. McDonald.

minutes. [ ' The minutes of the previous meeting "~cre read and confirmed. IL cough's bay road. WMt G. Kearney waited on the Board to fcforin them, that he and Messrs Jules and Btienne Lelievre had agreed to advance Pie amount for forming the road, Mr Kearney was requested to write to the Messrs Lelievre, asking them to put their Ker in writing. ■ CORRESPONDENCE. following letters were read. From ad bolt as follows :— Head of the Bay, 24th Dec., 1881. —I see by the last minutes of the that you are going to make through Rhodes's flat; I cannot you can go and spend all the funds leaving the other part of the

_-_---------------------------------------------------r" it the Board how Board to and person Peninsul econ ° n, y > Do you years the Akaroa and held their meetings had only one polling place. Road Board works, with tbe of contracts, should be susHHed until after the harvest.—Yours, etc., '• B Shadbolt." It was resolved that the letter should be acknowledged with thanks. From Mr John Smith as follows : — " Heathcote Steam Wharf, Oct. 9,1881. " Sir, —I am in receipt of a letter sent by the clerk to the Board of the 3rd inst., informing me that unless I sent a cheque for £9 4s 3d legal proceedings would be taken. I think it very hard for me to pay • rates and deriving no benefit from it, not even a bridle track that you could take a pack horse through with meat or anything else, being entirely shut up, having to pass through private property to reach the saw mill, which might be stopped at any moment, and as White and I have been paying rates for a long time, we are entitled to some consideration, and to have some of the money collected for rates expended in our district. I trust you will give this matter your consideration as it will confer a great benefit to other settlers as well as myself, by opening up a bridle track to the place.—Yours, etc., J. Smith. It was resolved that the letter should be acknowledged, and that Mr Smith be informed that his application would be considered by the Board when,tbey received Mr Smith's rates. From Mr J. Lowe as follows :— " Wainui, Dec. 20, 1881, " Sir, —I beg to state that I have ceased to lease the paddock, No. 177, of 60 acres, Wainui Valley, and house, since last March 10,1881, and therefore would you please take my name off the roll as a ratepayer for 1882, for the above section. Yours, etc. "John Lowe." It was resol , to write referring Mr Lowe to the V ier. From Mr T yas follows :— " Akaroa, Dec. 20, 1881. " Genth .ren, —I beg to call your attention to ' .c urgent necessity of continuing th work now being done on the Sumre c road at the expense of Messrs Sandys and Co., from my gale to Mr Chappell's corner. The work required on this short distance, in order to make the road available fur wheel traffic, would be comparatively very light, and until something is done to it the work now being irgdone will be useless. "Tbe expenditure of my rate on the length in question wonld make it,useable : but as Mr Barwick has inspected tbe road he will be able to give the Board all necessary information. Yours, etc., "James Daly," It was agreed on the motion of Mr McDonald, seconded by Mr Brooks, that the work should be done. From Ihe Returning Officer as follows :- •'Road Board Office, Dec. 24, 1881. " Sir,—l have the honor to inform you that Messrs Thomas Brooks and Benjamin Shadbolt being the only candidates nominated to serve as members of the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board, this 24 Dec , in terms of Section 11 of ' The Regulation of Local Elections Act. 1876,1 therefore declare the above named candidates duly elected. " Further I have to inform you that as the number of candidates have not been nominated sufficient to fill the vacancies required at the present election, an extraordinary vacancy occurs in terms of Section 45 of tbe above recited Act, you will therefore have to arrange for tho election of one member to serve on the said Board. Yours, etc., "John Barwick, " Returning Office." MOUNT BOSSU ROAD. Mr Cbappell called attention to the report in the Akaroa Mail of the last meeting of the Board in which it was stated that it was resolved "That the County Council should be informed that tenders had been called for opening the Mount Bossu road through Rhode's Flat, Wainui." Instead of tenders had been called it should have been will be called, extraordinary vacakcy. clerk wa3 instructed to make arrangements for tbe election of a member. TENDERS. The following tenders for the old Akaroa road were opened :—H. Edmondson, 2 weeks, £17 ; P. Shadbolt, 6 weeks, £16 ; T. S. Johnston, 4 weeks, £27 17s ; Mitchell and Curragh, 8 weeks, £14 10s ; L. P. Johnson, 3 weeks, £15. Mr C. McDonald proposed "That Messrs Mitcbelljand Cr.rragh's tender be accepted." Mr Brooks thought no more work should •be done till after grass seed time. The Chairman seconded Mr McDonald's proposition, which after discussion was passed. right of cutting grass seed. A number of tenders for cutting grass seed on the roads was opened. It was resolved to accept T. Welch's tender of £13 for the' whole of the roads in the district, conditionally on his agreeing to the roads being specified by the clerk. ACCOUNTS. The following accounts were passed :— James Wright i7s 6d, P. Ward ss. Total £1 2s 6d. The Board then adjourned till January 7 at 2 p.m.