ROAD BOARDS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 119, 17 October 1874, Page 3

ROAD BOARDS.

HEATHCOTE. This Board met on October 16th. Preseut —Messrs Dunlop, Ness, and Mardon. Mr Ness in the chair. The clerk reported having received road rates to the amount of £4l. A deputation of the employees of the Board attended, asking for an alteration of time or more wages, stating that men on the railway were getting Bs, and others employed by contractors 8s fid, while they were only getting 7s. They were informed that the matter would be decided next meeting. The clerk was directed to write to Captain Charlesworth, requesting him to clear away gorse from the side of the Ferry road near the steam wharf. Three letters were received from the City Council, and the discussion of the matters therein referred to were postponed to next meeting. A letter was read from Mr W. H. Packer, as to making roads on rural section 39. It was dec’ded that, as the Board had no regular surveyor, it cannot comply with the request. Letters were read from Messrs Garrick and Cowlishaw, as to continuation of Cashel street east, and also as to the City Council. A letter from Mr G. L. Lee, as to footpaths on River Avon road, from Ward’s brewery to Cowlishaw’s corner, was read. The Board regretted that his previous letter on the same matter was not officially acknowledged by the clerk; in reference to the formation of footpaths, the Board were about forming the continuation of the River road, when the question of forming footpaths would be finally settled. The clerk was directed to write te the Government asking that the amount of the General Government Grant may be paid to the Board’s credit ; also to ask the Government to cause a survey to be made of the road reserves on both sides of Ihe river Heathcote, and also on the south side of the river Avon, within the Heathcote Road Board district. The above roads have neyer been, surveyed and the Board find great difficulty in defining the same. It was resolved to ask the Government to place the amount of tender for contract on the Sumner road to the Board’s credit.