ROAD BOARDS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 845, 9 March 1877, Page 2

ROAD BOARDS.

HEATHCO*E

This Board met on Thursday, March Ist, 1877, at 2 p m. Present: Messrs S. Manning (obairman), P. Jones, W. Attwood, Peter Kerr, and W. Langdown. The minutes were read and confirmed. Letters were received from William Rolleston, Esq, chairman of the Selwyn County Council, requesting detailed accounts ot receipts and expenditure ; a statement of the rates of each Road District collected during the year ending 1876 ; a statement of the main and district roads in each district ; also a statement of any bridges, arterial roads, quarries, or other works in each district justifying a special grant to such district, A circular fromthe Kegistrar General’s office, requesting to be furnished with a detailed account of the population, number of dwellings, number of ratepayers, amount of rates levied, and total annual value of rateable property, &c, &c. Messrs Cowlishaw and George Leslie Lee waited on the Board to call their attention to several important improvements that could be carried out in the neighbor hood of the river Avon. The Board pro mised to give prompt attention to their recommendation. Memorial from Mr John Bamford and several others, requesting the Board to form the public road between sec tions No 31 and 11, Woolaton, now in a most impassable condition. The Board ordered to be formed 20 chains from th e (trance to the Ferry road. Letter from Mr Fenton, Heathcote Arms, Perry roari, complaining of the foul stat> of the drain h >’ *r ?*3r. Mr BnU b 'i’s y.fv'-g*? and the

bridge. Ordered to be immediately attended to. Letter from Messrs Adams and Son, Bast town belt, requesting permission to erect a verandah at their premises. Granted, subject to the usual conditions. Letter from the clerk to the Assessment Court requesting permission to have the use of the Road Board B >ard office to hold the Assessment Court Granted, Letter Horn Mr McGregor, requesting the Board to form the road from near the Old Stanmore road to the Sand Hills- Ordered to be carried, if the usual conditions is complied with. After the Board had gone through a large amount of correspondence, and ordered the same to be answered, tenders were opened for keeping Dyer’s Pass road in repair for twelve months, building a large concrete culvert at the foot of the hills, and shingling 680 yards of the river Avon road. The Board then decided on calling for tenders for forming 29 chains of Dyer’s road, the river road from the Perry mad to the Railway Station*at Opawa, 300 yards of metal for the Gas Works road, and 200 yards of broken metal for immediate use. Payments were then made amounting to £221 15s lOd, and the Board adjourned to the 15th inst.