Kiwitea Road Board

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 133, 20 April 1886, Page 2

Kiwitea Road Board

♦ — — 9 An ordinary meeting of this board was held on Saturday afternoon. Prosent — Messrs Taylor (chairman), Saxon, Williamson, and JBruce. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. ' Correspondence was 'rea&from : — Denton and Billett asking for payment of acconnt for felling bush on road line. ; ; Prom the Commissioner Lands, declining to approve of $he proposed expenditure of 4#f erred! §>ayment moneys without the'sanction of the owners of properties concerned. From the Treasury notifying |h© payment of £23 10s, being 'revenue accruing from goldfields. \. \^.j,' . Mr Phynn waited upon the board with reference to the state of a portion of Mackay's road. '■' The -~ section^ alongside had been fenced, and per--sons passing along had to wade through ' water which lay there in wet weather. There were, he said,- nearly o^oron children who had to pass that way to school. He stated that if a drain and culvert were put in, it would Te>sry~the matter, and this would only cost % \ 'small sum, and the work would-be of 2 permanent benefit. ,- '. . ;. . , " f Mr Phynn was informed that tjfo V matter would-be attended to, and e^fter i thanking the members of the iioard he withdrew. * N *" : '\. The annual balance sbeet waylaid * lon the table. It showed a, total rev- , enue from all sources, the year ; ending 31st March, of £3,340 12s j&cl, * and expenditure £2,453 9a 7dj leaving .'.'{ I a credit balance of £88?. 2a i 74: T Ee * letter j from Commissioner of '". i Crown Lands. ... ' .-"\v .^ Mr Williamson pointed out that all * the holders of deferred payment sea- ,* tions in the Waitiina Block, had n^6tal| < led roads piast their frontages except < v those Of- Mr Zaionskowski, to which i^ the board had voted' a sum of money .^ at the last meeting. He deprecated.'^ the action of the bbard in passing suehii.^' an amount in nil-ward during /SS§r>f; absence. se. wTalited the deferred.; * payment moneys to improve th^tqida\-i ( op. which .there were -several settler* " who were unabie'.to get 'a trap neattheir holdings. He himself only iad £ a few chains of metal frontage, and- a.: part of his frontage was a mile and ia 7 nialf from a road. He paid more rates than anyone else on the, block, and he censidered that he should have, seme consideration. He proposed, VTh_»t? the. engineer be instructed that tbplay %l-3, out the work on Williamßon's roai.-'!"^ The motion was seconded by we /• chairman and carried. . .■ t Tenders were opened for forming and culverting the Cheltenham ctona- -' road from Wilson's road .to ■J* Zaion- : ■ skowski's property :— John Benseman, £55 ; W. McDongaU, £54 ; J. Doch- • erty, £58 ; Thomas Smith, £59 10a. . Clearing Heyne's-line, 80 chains:"; — D. Grey &. Sons, 9s 6d per chain? v Cornish and Co., 6s per chain ; A* - Signal, 7s 6d per chain; Docherthy, 6s 6d per chain. ;^ Eesolved, "That the tender of ' Cornish and Co. be accepted for ■' Heyne' s-line at 6s per chain. ... ; ,. • . - '-: With reference to the Cheltenham .^ road, Mr Williamson proposed," That v the matter be held over till the board v receive the deferred payment moneys from the Waste Lands Board." j ;: : - Upon Mr Bruce undertaking: ■: $ that the Makino Ward should bear ; £12 of the expense,. Mr Williamson withdrew his motion ; and it was resolved, That the tender of W.*Mg£ " Dougall be accepted. ,* t A': Proposed by Mr Williamsoii, ; - and seconded by Mr Taylor, (thatthe Engineer lay off the formation on V' McKay^sline^ of Mr Godfrey's deviatiioii -y and the portion applied for by M»::v' Phynn.-^— Carried. ...;*.' Mr Williamson proposed, That • a further sum of £10 be expended o«tti,\ of theßpecialftccountonZaionflkowski's' road. ■ ■'- _ -' . . - . ' -^Cj] ..'. Mr Bruce seconded the moifciifcj \ which was oarried. '. ; ;< Mr Bruce pointed but that thft. water lay on the road in front of hifl property, and a culvert was wanted to . carry it away. The Engineer was instructed to do the necessary work ' Resolved, That Meura Denton. trnd Millett be informed that there is no money at present available for buahfelling. Mr Saxon moved, That tha : Engineer be instructed to clear the water-table and widen the cutting round Mr Finnis Brown's section itt the Poharigina.— Seconded by Warden . Bruce and carried. ;...;.. Mr Williamson moved, .and Mr Taylor seconded, That Mr Turnbull be communicated with, asking if he could grant the board per- _ mission to take about half-an-acre in ' section 1 55 for the purpose of road d«- - viation on the Cheltenham road.— Oarried. . . Eesolved, That Mr Williamson and the Engineer open tenders for the > work on Williamson's road, this day. fortnight. Eesolved, That all defaulting rate- * payers be summoned at next court day. Accounts were passed for payment te the amount of £535 2s 10a, including Government debentures of £381 9s 9d. The board-then adjourned.

We bar* received an acrostic on '* Trial by Jury," signed by "Nan." As the authors has omitted to append his or her name, we are unable to publish' iti\t Sunday is the golden clasp that binds '- together the day* of the week, bttt -jdd;g->- !l ing from the contents of the contribu* tion plate, most men it a kind of silver and copper anniversary. A meeting of the stewar^ of the Feilding Jockey Club will beheld to- t morrow night at the Denbigh,.|j^t«L /At -' \ the business is to appoint tEjp. several * stewards to their respect ire po'sitiont, a full attendance is urgently requested.. '" V * On Sunday last a man named Lpngji : ' burn was locked up for being drunk. The prisoner was brought before . 7. G. Thompson, Esq., J.P., who fined lnni "ss or m default 24 hours' imprisonment, fio elected to4o tiie lmprisoument. . / "