Kiwitea Road Board

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 93, 20 January 1885, Page 2

Kiwitea Road Board

— m The ordinary moritfcly itfeetifig wa* held at the Board's office, Manchester' street, yesterday afternoon.- Present — Messrs Taylor (chairman), Saxon, Williamson and Bruce. The minutes of the previous ordintary meeting were read andTConfirmed. I The following correspondence' watt. I r ead : — Mr J. R. Davies, in the irtatter jof his rates ; Mr Zaionskowski, Marj ton, An. acco unt for work done , Survey Office, re instructions given ta legalise the road through' section 175, Kiwitea ; Crown Lands Office, re -?.- deviation "- .of , Pohftpgjn fa -.xpad ; Public "Works Departn_eiit, a circular and schedules re grants under the Roads and Bridges Contraction Act ; Property Tax Departi_..irt, tion of roll for rates oh. Orbwulinds j Mr W. R. Godfrey, aeldng <f pr. J&ermission to alter the -ite^oi a gateway oil Mackay's line. • • ;"' •' " [J Permission was granted to Mr Godfrey to remove his gateway as requested. '■•■• : ■"'•.:".' y It was agreed that Mr ZaionskoVski's application Btand over till the next meeting of the Board. .-_ •.. • Proposed by Mr Saxon,.secondedby Mr Williamson^ That the <3erk be instructed to write to the Government explaining that the ixiad in the; Pohangina . which the Board wishes to have pushed on is not a deviation, but the original road, for which the contract was let. — -Carried; ~ . . , : . . . . . ; . . A long conversational discussion was held on the expenditure of the grants for certain works under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, after which it was resolved, .That the appointment of the grant proposed .by the^ Board be as follows :— £l22 on " Cheltenham Cross road ; £100 on__imbolton road ; and £100 on Mackay's road. Resolved, That 'the Engineer be instructed to-lay off the ..works proposed and call for tenders for the, same, the tenders to be in by the next meeting of the Board. Resolved, That the : Engineer be requested to give an estimate, iby the next meeting, of tiie cost of a drain and culvert on the top end of the deviation of Mackay's Line. The Chairman remarked -hat he saw in one of the papers something about the Board haying got judgment in the Wang*aiiiu Harbor Board case, and that the defendants intended to appeal, and thought it 'strange that if it were so they, had received no official intimation of the fact. Mr Saxon was surprised to hear of its being published, as he had not heard of it before. It was understood that nothing definite could be; said about the matter till the Board had. received some official' information.. The general opirdon of the Board was that an appeal would only entail furti> er costs to the defendants, as they must ultimately have to pay.the rates- : i: ; .-,•.-: -.-i.y Resolved,. That a spe(^, meetings for ihe opening of tenders ;*,]be held on Saturday, 31st instant, at 2 j>.m., and that Messrs Bruce, Sa3con. u and Williatnson.be authorised ytpi receive and accept tenders, j v . . , , , jy , -„ Accounte amounting to £475 2s were passedjfor paymenjfc, the, Board then adjourned. „, _.- rY [' „