Manchester Road Board

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 154, 8 June 1886, Page 2

Manchester Road Board

A meeting of the above was held at the office of the Board on Saturday last. Present— Messrs Lethbridge (in the chair), Pleasants, and Whibley. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, ~ Following correspondence was re al : Circular irom the Under-Secretary - forPablic Works re issue of debentures under Roads and Bridges Construction "Aot. ■ " ' -: 7 # ' ; ' : -""'—-- From the same enclosing forms^ of requisition for imprest payments. . ; / From the same re imprest of £1666 | Manawatu Gorge bridge. : 77 . U*\ From Mr E. Goodbehere, secretary Kiwitea Road Board, re cattle straying on county roads, and asking the Board to take _*tope in the matter by joining with the Kiwitea Road Board _ in appointing a ranger. From Samuel Goodbehere, solicitor, re "" Contraotors General Conditions." > From the agent B. & C._L Corporation, asking that the following alterations be made in the rate book:— Sections 140-1, to William Hazell; sections 83-100, .88-9, 142, 147, 148, - 149, 150, 155-7, to George Albert Jackson ; sections 190-1, Ashurst, to Joseph Wilson; sections 121-3, to Ellen Bourke ; sub-division TV,' to :;. John Hansen; sections 151, 154, .-.-. 159, to Ann Print; section 27, subdivision T, to John Hanson ; section 170; to Arthur Green. „_. From Benjamin Tremewan, asking , : that section 64 be transferred to Rich- . ardProoter; 7 - „, -from H. Palnskey, asking leave to .. foTica five or six yards of the road.— „ Referred to the Engineer for his report. , From Gordon Bros., Ashurst, re certain scrub felled and a ditch cleared ..-.. out, and applying for payment. The Engineer was instructed to consult Messrs Warne and Beard. From Thomas Lowes, ferryman, Gorge ferry, re fencing road through ferry reserves— declining the offer - made by the Board to- find wue for „-. erecting the same. ... From D. L. Smith, on -behalf of : , John Manson, applying for leave to fall a road line on the Waituna road opposite sections 27, 92, and 94, and. if not already done, requesting that the cost of falling at usual rate may be deducted from Mr Hanson's rates. From Messrs Walter Bailey, John Wratt, Arthur Goldfinch, Gstrret Prendergast agreeing to accept the ©3**r of the Board, and to advance the. , money to the Board to ditch and form -..-■ about 120 chains of the Taonui road, and to pay the money to the credit of the Board with, the Bank ef Australasia as ths work proceeds. The - , Board to refund the money within eighteen months. Proposed by Mr Lethbridge, seconded by Mr Whibley, That the request of Mr Manson ior buahf elling on roads opoaite sections 52, 53, 54, 27, 94, aid 92, be granted on tba,. Board's usual t.rms,— Carried. 7 ; I. . Proposed by Mr Wbibioy, seconisd^v . ; by Mr Lethbridge, That the requeigfc^., of the E. & O. A. Corporation to t^ns^fer sections to the different ewn^j)©^^ granted, and that section 64 be* tntns^^ v f erred ift rate* book from Tremewan! .... to Procter.— Carried. i.^i."''jXPursuant to notice of motion alread^j given, it w*s proposed by Mr EUas-.*^. ants, seconded by Mr Lethbridge^ That the resolution ; passed,,at jthe . meeting of the Board held on lO]^' April, 1886, to form 120 chains of the Taonui road be rescind<»d.— Carried. „ Accounts amounting to _5196 7s_l l d were passed for pa*p_ient, and the meeting adjourned.