DYER'S PASS ROAD, GOVERNOR'S BAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1904, 1 April 1880, Page 3

DYER'S PASS ROAD, GOVERNOR'S BAY.

A meeting of the ratepayers of tho Port Victoria district took place on Tuesday, March 30th, at half-past tw.elve o'clock, at the schoolhouse, Governor's Bay • North. The meeting was convened by the Chairman of the Road Board (the Rev. R. R. Bradley) in accordance with a requisition from a number of ratepayers. Mr A. Thompson moved—" That it ia desirable that tenders be called as soon as practicable for the formation of the Dyer's Pass road diversion, as laid out by Messrs Thornton and Bull." Mr P. P. Hodgson seconded the resolution. Mr D. Gebbio moved as an amendment, and Mr Dance seconded —" That the road be not proceeded with, but that tho money be spent on improving the road to Lyttelton." Mr John Gebbie suggested that the Road Board had no power to spend the money except upon the Dyer's Pass Road, and moved that a legal opinion be obtained upon the question. Both amendments, which were afterwards amalgamated and put as one, were opposed by Messrs W. Foster, Hodgson, and Thompson. Mr Gebbie'a amendment was lost and tho original resolution carried. Mr Thompson then moved, and Mr Hodgson seconded—- " That the Board be requested to ask the Minister for Public Works to direct that the prisoners confined in Lyttolton Gaol bo employed in making a road from Lyttelton to Governor's Bay along the line of reserve above high water mark, and further that the Mayor and Borough Councillors of Lyttelton be requested to co-operate in this matter." Carried. A vote of thanks to the Chairman was then passed, and the meeting closed.