Kiwitea Highway Board.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 107, 22 May 1883, Page 2

Kiwitea Highway Board.

♦ _— The ordinary monthly meeting--of the above Board was held in the Manchester Highway Board office^ yesterday' afternoon. Present — Wardens Tkylbr(ehflurman), Williamson, McKeifzie an&'Bryce. The minutes of the previods ofauiafy meeting were reid, and after spmo slight amendments had been made, they wore confirmed. ~ .^ The following correspondence' jms read: — ''",'.' -•""'. From Mr Bray, stating that he ;Wdpfe[ not bo able to do the engineering, fpr tjajgt Board after the expiration of the .present month, he having been appointed engineer for the northern division, of the Manawatu County. , .., ,^ Petition from the settlers. in ; ,P^b?ngina ward, praying the Boar4i>to ,take steps to have certain roads gazetted^ as main roads. ■ ■. . .. <i-v--::^o r.:.-:*j Resolved, on the motion of Watttett* Williamson, seconded' -by Wardeu"M , dKenzie, That tho petition' 6f ''ihe'-8&tlb-& of Pohangina' ward' stand over, it being too . late, as no more roads cannow be gazetted before next March, 'when .t^ petition will receive the cohs^erationof the Board. From the Property Tax Commissionerre question about' the Colonial ?Tr4as*ifv er's liabilities for certain. Crown and Native lands entered^ 6h ' th'e Kiwitea Highway .Board's District roll, and stating that he is not so liable^, < j, H The accounts ef the various .Wjftfda! were also received. ' - .-' . .' *.} Jr*i*l Resolved, That .the Clerk take J imme* diate steps fpf the recoy ery ' of? all outstanding rates;- . " ;; * l ) Warden Bryce proposed and War^i Taylor seconded, That the lia^fl(tiea taken over, from the Manawatu Highway Board be equally divided and the amounts charged to each ward,. but must nptajply toJJio moneys expended.sincfc. tlie formation of this Board. .. ..;.';; " ( Wardens McKenzie and Williamson strongly opposed the motion, arguing that the new wards which; were ctmstattH ted at the formation of the Bauidfo§g|t not to be t&xed with such heavy-^xpfeJU ture as the older wards, which formerly belonged to the Manawatu Bbard^ltavlhg as yet received little or no benefit fjbni ihe Kiwitea Board. ' ' '.""■ '.'* .*'. Warden Williamson moved the fqUcvfJ ing amendment, That the liabilities taken over in connection with the wparafcicji from the Manawatu Highway.: B^ard;^ divided as follows :-r-Kimbolton r -Orojaa, and Makino wards £39 eachi 'Waituna, £20, and Pohangina £10. There was no. seconder to the" aincnpment, and the motion, after the' addrtiM of the word?/ ''arid that the inoriey^utr standing to the cre'dit of the' feipepfive wards go towards the liqm^atip'n,' r '' ; was carried. • ' .'.". ,'.. u-:-{> Wardens Williamson "and: McKetaie voted against it, but- the Chairman fit™ his casting vote in its favor.,' „.•* Besolved, That Mr E. "GoodbeEerßhe appointed, returning officer for the Kiwitea Highway Board,: and .that .hfe-gbj instructed io advertise -the- eleefcions-of wardens as soon as necessary. ' "•'">" j,*JtfJ Resolved, -with reference ito certain works for which the engineer is preparing plans and specifications, That'ias s<JJnh*B these are ready they- be forwarded- to tike Public Works office, with a ; fetatemelfts£ the amount of money required for same. A number of account- *",*•■<- .'!'■ ■■-.-?. \ . p ?v