LITTLE RIVER ROAD BOARD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 650, 6 October 1882, Page 3

LITTLE RIVER ROAD BOARD.

The onlii my monthly meeting of this Bd.iml was l:ci(l on Mo'id.iy "in.l inst. 3'rfMTit —al! tl.e nuiiibeiH, Mr R. A Forbes in the chair.

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Tho uiiimtcH of the previous mooting 'ueie )'i ail find confirmed.

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The pntveyor'fi report wa.s considered. It wits resolved that the offer of Sidney Ilniriss to allow the Hoard to cart shingle jDm the c-eek through his paildock, free of charge, lie accepted, and that the -iilerk enrry out the work, as well as attend to repairs to culverts on hill road, &c, It was further .resolved that the cleik be iiulhorisKl to have some metal broken at €oops quarry, not to exceed a fixed price per ynrd, as well as to arrange for carting Moulders to be uyed as abutment wabs to a snew bridge proposed to be erected in Western Valley. It wae further resolved that the Clerk and Chairman point out to Mr MeAitiiey, contractor, what parts of the Tai Tiipu and Lincoln road it is desirable to ■reform. Also, that white lead paint and •oil be obtained, with a view to p.iinting band railingn, &c, of bridges in the district ; applications to do ihu work to be received by the (Jliairinan and Clerk. section 4264.

It was resolved iliat the Chief Surveyor be requested to forward plan, iv.c , of the road diverted through section 4264, &>■., an Liltle River, if rwady, as the Board is anxious to have the exchange finally com(pieted. CORUESPOXDENCK. Correspondence was teceived i'rom the Springs Road Board, requesting lo be informed it this 3oard is willing to pay an •equal portion of the preliminary expenses of taking levels and otherwise reporting on the best method of. improving the drainage of the river Ilalswell. et<\ Resolved—" That this Board is willing to contribute equally with the Springs, the Lincoln, and the Halswell Boards." From Mr G. R. Joblin, granting permission to cart shingle from his property at Little River, to be used on Western Valley road. ; NEW ROAD BOARD OFFICE. Proposed by Mr Wilson seconded by Mr Birdling and resolved —" That the Government be applied to, through the Chief Commissioner of Crown laiuis at Christchurch, for ft reserve of about twenty acres of land below the high-water level of Lake El!eemere, for the purposes Gf erecting ther.on a Road Board Office, and for the ii.-c of a paddock for Road Board purposes, fis the present prcßiises occupied by the Board are on private property, and that llie Clerk wait on the Coimnipsioner to jfiirUer explain tiie Board's necessity in t'hf! matter, and prepare a tracing of the par iculr.r locality most central, and of the >imd applied for." UOIHIK ON liO.vD. John Prindevilk- waited on the Board, to be allowed to remnin in a house built on a road in Little River. Ke.-olvcd, tlwit all persons having bouses on rondh iii the district receive three months notice lo remove off said roads. RES GN'ATION. Mr Oiphcrt fctive "lie month's notice of Ins intention to resign the office of poundkeeper Hi Little RiviT, and the (Meik was instructed to ascertain who is a suitable person to undei.iako.the duties lienceforwaid. TEJJDKRS. For carting shingle fiom Late beach there were lour tender?, that of McArtney