ROAD’ BOARDS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 71, 22 August 1874, Page 3

ROAD’ BOARDS.

HEATHCOTE. The Board met on Thursday, August 20th. Present —Messrs J. T. Fisher (chairman), Dunlop, Ness, and Mardon. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

The clerk reported ho had collected during the last fortnight—Waimakariri rates, £5 2s 9d ; ordinary road rates, £6B 8s 9d; total £73 11 s 6d.

The board resolved that after Mr Huddleston had been consulted in reference to his survey, that action should be taken in due course to cause Mr Holier to remove ob structions on the River road, at the quay. Also, that notice be given to Mr James Rennie, Woolston, that unless the survey pegs be replaced and the lockspit reopened, that further action will be taken in the matter.

The foreman of works reported that the cost of putting in a culvert and forming the approaches on Miss Skillicorn’s road would be £7, when the Board resolved —“ That if Miss Skillicorn would guarantee half the cost of same, the work should be done. The clerk was directed to give notice to owners of laud on the Avon River road where their fences encroached on the road, to remove same preparatory to the Board’s forming the road ; also to inform .Mr W. Holly and others who had gorse fences abutting, or gorse growing on the side of roads in the district, and who have already had notices to cut and clear the same, that the Board had resolved, if the notices were not complied with, the Board would do the work and sue the parties for the expenses. Also to write to Mr Hopkins, stating the Board had been informed of his cutting and carrying away willows from the River Avon, and doing so in such a manner that the trees were being sadly mutilated, and to caution him of a repetition of the offence. The following letters were read : From F. Wakefield, offering his services honorary as an engineer over the improvements to be carried out on the Sumner road.

To be acknowledged with thanks. From Geo Osborne and others re Aldwin’s road.

To be informed the work was under consideration. - T , . >

From Thos West and others, rc Stanmore road.

It was agreed the matter should be attended to.

From H. B. Johnstone, re road at Sumner. It was thought the matter had better be deferred for the present. From A. Blakiston, re rate roll for Colombo road Educational district ; and from J. Condon, re rates. The clerk was directed to attend to the matters reierred to.

From the Government re Sumner road, Dyer’s Pass road, and Ferry road drain. The above letters had been brought before the public meeting* and discussed, on Thursday, the 13th instant, as reported in the Press of the 14th instant. The clerk was directed to acknowledge receipt of them. Tenders for shingling Heathcote river road were opened and one accepted. Resolved that tenders be called for 200 yards of screened shingle for the Ferry road between Mr Loughman’s and the town belt.

A deputation, consisting of Messrs William Wilson, J. D. Macpherson, and B'. Wakefield, waited on the Board to inquire if any part of the £IOOO voted for widening the Sumner road was to be laid out on the improvement of the cutting, as it was reported on good authority that the Government contemplated expending £3OO of that vote with that object. The deputation urged upon the Board the almost certainty of a rail being laid down to the Ferry bridge, and thereafter across the mudflat to Sumner. This route, being shorter than the present line of road by at least a mile, would bo, almost certain to be supplemented by an ordinary road in the same direction, which would leave the cutting entirely on one side, and make any large expenditure on it unprofitable. The Board assured the deputation that they knew nothing of any diversion of the vote, and that the late correspondence with the Government warranted them in. believing that the whole £IOOO would be laid out between the neighbourhood of the Shag Rock and Day’s old stables. The deputation then retired. Accounts to the amount of £233 17s 8d were passed, and ordered to be paid, when the Board adjourned.