AKAROA AND WAINUI.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 194, 22 January 1875, Page 4

AKAROA AND WAINUI.

A meeting of this Board was held at the Road Board office, Akaroa, on Saturday, the (6th inst. Mr G. H. Saxton was re-elected as chairman of the Board. A letter was received from Mr H. H. Fenton, the district engineer, stating that he had examined and condemned the metal supplied and stacked at Red John’s Gully by the contractor for works under Little River road, special grant, and recommending that no advance be paid until the metal is cleaned and stacked ; also advising the Board that the Government had authorised a further expenditure for benching and other work between the Old Pigeon Bay road and Barry’s Pass. It was resolved that specifications be prepared and tenders invited for the following works :— Widening and reforming portion of Pigeon Bay road ; quarrying, breaking, and spreading metal on the Little River road, Akaroa side of the range; clearing and benching continuation of Summit road to Long Bay track ; surface clearing and formation to the Barry’s Pass road. The clerk was instructed to write to the Secretary for Public Works, stating the necessity for erecting new bridges of a permanent character on the Main road, Akaroa, to afford better accommodation to the increasing traffic. It was resolved—“ That Government be also applied to for payment of T 5 per cent of amount of contracts in hand under Summit road and Barry’s Pass road grants.” The chairman was requested to apply to the Government for an importation of immigrants into the district, as a great scarcity of labor exists. The sum of £196 Is Id was passed for payment on account of contracts and wages, and the meeting then adjourned.