ROAD BOARDS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 111, 8 October 1874, Page 3

ROAD BOARDS.

MANDEVILLB AND RANGIORA

This board met on Monday at the usual hour. All the members present. Mr Blackett in the chair.

Mr Mclntosh, of Kaiapoi, attended and signed conveyance of a portion of the Kaiapoi and Beach road for road purposes. Plans and specifications for the proposed works on the above road were also considered, and the estimated cost stated to be about £GOO. The clerk was inst’ucled to ascertain from the owners of land adjoining the amount they would contribute towards the work.

Messrs Young, Wilson, and others attended with a petition from ratepayers in the Church Bush District, asking for Revell’s road to be reformed. The surveyor was instructed to report on the work at next meeting. Messrs Young and B. Wilson undertook to build the bridge over the Cam for the sum of £l2, the Board finding all material. Mr Young asked that the Cam should be cleared of willows, as they were becoming a nuisance. The clerk was instructed to give the owners of property notice to that effect. The surveyor was also instructed to level the road leading to the site of the new bridge prior to carting the material. Mr H. Revell asked that a ditch on the Cara bridge road should be cleaned out; also stated that the bridge over Boys’ direct road drain had been carried away in the flood, and the surveyor was instructed to see to both matters.

Messrs John Bailey and W. Harrison asked for a portion of the Mairaka road to be formed and the gullies shingled, and it was resolved to invite tenders for the work.

Tenders for shingling Boys’ direct road were opened, and one accepted. The other works were deferred in consequence of the tenders received being considered excessive.

A letter was received from Mr Brundle requesting that the foot bridges on the Cam be erected.

The surveyor was instructed to proceed with them as soon as possible. A letter from Messrs Duncan and Jamieson, solicitors for Mr Lovegrove.was read and the matter left in the hands of Messrs Duncan and Wilson to arrange.

Mr Wilson asked that a road be opened through Rural Section 826, Woodend district, and the surveyor was instructed to report upon it. Mr Wilson also asked permission for Mr McDonald, Waikuku, to erect a dam and floodgates in the creek at his wool-scouring establishment, which was granted subject to the usual conditions.

The surveyor was instructed to open up road alongside R.S. 5736, Flaxton district, and to make a ford in the road at that point. A letter was received from Messrs Duncan and Jamieson, solicitors for Mr J. Patterson, complaining of damage done to his property. The surveyor was instructed to do the necessary works for the protection of the road, as soon as the labor gang was at liberty to proceed with it. A circular was received from Government, recommending the use of finger posts in certain places, and the surveyor was instructed to have them erected where requisite. Mr Duncan was authorised to have a ford put down at the end of Boys’ direct road, at a cost not exceeding £2. It was resolved that a special meeting of the Board be held on Friday, the 16th inst, to take into consideration the requirements of the main roads in the district.

Accounts amounting to £374 16s 5d were passed ior payment, and the meeting adjourned.