PIGEON BAY ROAD BOARD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 589, 7 March 1882, Page 3

PIGEON BAY ROAD BOARD.

This Board held its monthly meeting in the Board's office on Saturday, March 4. Present—Messrs Hay (chairman), Pettigrew, Lyall, Pitcaithly, and Paton. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed.

Correspondence was read— From the Ceunty Clerk, soliciting the co-operation of the Board in urging upon the Government the undesirability of deviating from the surveyed route of the Akaroa railway to form a siding at Lake Forsyth. The clerk was directed to acknowledge receipt and to say that the Board had no interest in the matter.

From the Charitable Aid Board, with statement of accounts for the year.

The attention of the Board was directed by one of the members to the damaged condition of the seawall (Woodili's first contract), but nothing was at the time decided regarding it. Mr Lyall was appointed, along with Mr Pettigrew, to have the oversight of the road from the beach up, and he and Mr Pettigrew, on the motion of Mr Hay, seconded by Mr Paton, were empowered to call for and open tenders for breaking 200 yards of road metal for the Akaroa new road. Tenders to be in the hands of the chairman by noon on the 11th inst. Attention was also called to the blocked state of the culverts on Port Levy road, and Mr Paton empowered to have them cleared and one new culvert added.

As the boundary between Okain's and Pigeon Bay Road Districts is rather vaguely defined, the Clerk was directed to write that Board regarding the desirability of both adopting a definite boundary suggested by the Chief Surveyor. The Clerk was directed to write Mr McGregor, of Akaroa, requesting the return of the tracings and map used by him as Assessor to the Board.

Also to Mr Holmes, re road down the flat through Holmes' Bay.