Kiwitea Road Board

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 20, 19 February 1884, Page 3

Kiwitea Road Board

■+- • An ordinary meeting of the Board was held at the Oroua County Council's office yesterday afternoon. Present— Messrs Taylor (chairman), Davies, Williamson, and Bryce. The minutes of the previous ordinary meeting were read and confirmed. The following correspondence was read : — Nathan and McCarty, requesting a refund of £33, being deposit for contract, oft the ground that they had miscalculated the amount of work to be dooe, and could not do it without a direct foss; Crown Lands ofßce, with long letter from settlers on deferred payment section 313 in the Kiwitea Natire Block, with reference to roads; Treasury office, advising that the sum of £72 Us 3d had been placed to the credit of the Board, and only awaited the receipt of the sanction of the Waste Lands Board for payment ; Treasury office, to the effect that debentures for £312 Us lid under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act were in order ; Public Works office, several letters and a circular, re gra ts, <fcc, under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act; Mr Kilgour, re the work of clearing a line. Resolved, That Mr Ogour receive £2 per acre for his work of clearing a line, as •ooa as it is certified that the work is done, including the felling of ratas on the line. The Board then went into committee for consideration of lenders. The following tenders were accepted: — Perry and Mcßeth's line, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 contracts, J. Smith; No. 4 contract, Younger and Laing. The tenders for work on Bryce's line were left in the hands of the Engineer, for him to deal with in accordance with the amount voted by the Board. Resolved, That the application of Nathan and McCarty stand over till next next meeting. Messrs Wilhelras, Zaisnskowski, Murray, and McDougal then wailed upon the Board with petitions from settiers in Wait an a Ward with reference to the natter of roads to their properties. They stated their requirements and views at considerable length, two of them advocating certain deferred payment moneys being spent in forming roads in one particular direction, and the other two in a - other. These gentlemen having thanked the Board and withdrawn, the matter above referred to was discussed by the Board. The deputation fro n the meeting held in the morning at Mr Pollock's Restaurant, as reported elsewhere, was then received. Mr Wright acted as spokesman for the deputation, and explained its obiect to the Board. Some of the roads which Mr Wright said the settlers wished to be applied for under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act had, the Chairman said, already been applied for. The Clerk read from the minutes a copy of resolution, that steps be taken with a view of getting the road starting from the end of Taonui road, and continuing m Tarious directions brought under the Act. Mr Williamson suggested that the settlers should hare a plan prepared of the roads they would wish to have declared main, and which district roads, for the purpose of making the application to (he Government at the proper time.] Thia, it was understood, would be done, and that part of the object of the deputation was thus so far settled. The matter of the siding marked A on the plan was then brought forward, and it was the opinion of all that the expenditure of the £10 already voted towards this work should be held over to be dealt with in connection with the roads matter The matter of the letter from the Crown Lands office, with letter from Messrs Wilhelms and Zaisnsknwski thereon was next discussed, after which it was proposed by Mr Williamson, seconded by Mr Brjce, That the Clerk write to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, supplying tracin?, and applyinsr for expenditure of deferred payment money within the Manchester Block, and explaining the reason for expending the money outside the Waituna Biock, and not expending the same according to the application of Messrs Wilhslms and Zaisnskowßki.— Carried. Mr Bryce moved, and Mr Taylor seconded, That the application of Messrs Wilhelms and Z-iisnskowski, re opening a road through their properties will receive the attention of the Bpard. Mr DaWes proposed, as an amendment. That 30 chains of road leading to Messrs Zaisnskowski and Wilhems' properties be felled and cleared one chain wide and stumped and cleared 30 feet wide, out ot . the £70 available for the Waituna deferred payment sections. The amendment found no seconder, and the former proposition was put. and carried. ( ' Accounts to the amount of £16 17s Bd,| 'ijwere. pawed for payment, and the Board J i titfßadjounisd.