Kiwitea Road Board

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 32, 18 March 1884, Page 2

Kiwitea Road Board

.■.,-.•::! itf ■~A l '*A>77^.rA ;^lnsi : An bfdiniiVy" f niontliry 'meeting ''df'the „ ij .o : ;5'::.->.*f;:^ .=-7'V!_J.Ki .JO?9UlfiT Board was held yesterday ,- afternoon. ; Present -r- Messrsr,Taylo_r,i-[(Cbairnian), Divies^William'sonA*) >7.--;; -7\ The mihutes' f 6f the .'previous ordinary •were read and confirmed. >; { is. - ;• ::i', ! '.i •;•'::•'■ : ■:-! '■><■■ \ ,*■»;«.'■« i >''>:-.fl .<■ / The follpwiug. correspondence was then tread' VA i-i AA -di' A A^::;:'^;';':!. .2 .' ' ■1 Under-Secretary Publio Works' circular -re sending in 'debehtures^within; fprOper time; Crown. Lands, .Qffil:e^re>ie'l*m'a payment money,.; . and d.destiujated,,! ct»st of works; Clerk Manchester Road Board, re spending £90*' ii Wi son's line^tating that tenders: had \ been- calledTf oWthe w ork ;M r \VI Ha in ni6i»d, J rtq!i'est ing ' tho clearing' : of a line near lns^proj^'iHy'on the Native : ResefveV or'ilie' spenfliHg of rates for that pu fpose: j M eSfsisX'rosfce^a)*! Curry, applying forchange' of ndniesfon rate roil ; H. J. ,Haynes, ; aski:ig if the. Board to pay him for" some bush fei ing done by him some time back. The alteration of names io the rate -i - -i' — A ' ■i'-'. i 'J ! '--fJr:.i'H\.:-y.'.n-ii-:i'> mr.. ■ jbook from' -.Croskery io, >< ,Curryi,.-. ; wa* granted. ''-AH Aa 'io .-■ <nAy ' .The ; : matt«;r:pf Mr Hammond's applica.. cation yt.a's.^en; it^as re_sol yed,; Tha t {the „ lerk [be instruct cd. to write to Mr Hammond: lb-ask if,the Jine (he proposes; is/ a surveyed line, j ori -would lead to one, or if there is! any. surveyed line which' would serve his purpose.

„W ithi-r eference to the application of •Nathan and~MceartyT^t4d^wer^jtona last meeting,! in-jwhiehi'theyJisked : for a refund of deposition, tender, "on the ground that they bad miscalculated the value of the iwork -.of r jthe .iontracfc, Mr, Natha- r yraitepAon, ,-tqe, /Board, land explained their miscaliilatipn, stating that .up.one could 0 > it f forithec money. < -.He . then--, retired*; and . \ tlje ; .matter t was i disj<yisßed ; 'A.M;;a nd.\ ni ■

Mr. Williaraspnj .considered., it repaid bo a bad precedent to make a refund in thia. The Engineer said it'wngterjr'easj for a tenderer^o; make a7>ni tendering in the rough for the whole job. H^the^ scb^duk^^n^filjpd^ ' sboiuTd ba^ jj^en£ t he, errgr ; jrpuld sgon i h^ re^?ff;^^ er^ d -;llt' 76 V:ii>£tf!i7p > tit ; .Mr./Davies) thbuglife^^.,^fic!»td;|[)d guided by the Engineer,' arid: discard'! a -tender that was mot in necbrdan&'i with the rules/ mAk: J>uo nAA-Ay /•jjiil'.Y-fti ■ , ; i Tbel chairman; suggested. a 'compromise by refunding half itliedepb^itJ^ ,K7A; Y\

' Thegeneral opinion was that conti actors should be more careful m making tenders, as circumstances o5 this lc md Inject ca mj greu, inconvenience, nsjiad, been ifieca«e in the present instance, the work in t) t be meantime be/ing lefj undone notwithstanding its great importance'; -The absence of Mr Bryce. the member more imniediately concerned, was -regretted. >"*.*' J > ' Jt ''" ll ' "Tf, Ultimately it was' resolved t to make a refund of ' half the' deposit on the good faith of tiie* statement— of the tenderer! that they had made a miscilculation. /The matter of- Mr HayneV letter was held .over. . „ , „ , t i .Accounts amounting t0 £261 2s 9d were pass d for payment. . . r The Board' then' adjourned.' ""''»' ' " ' '" - ' 'u> mi I