BOARD OF CONSERVATORS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2348, 12 October 1881, Page 3

BOARD OF CONSERVATORS.

The usual meeting of the South Waimakariri Board of Conservators was held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Present —Messrs J. L. Wilson (chairman), Peryman, Boag, England, Attwood, Lambert, Atkinson, and White. The reports of the overseer were read, stating that some three freshes had taken place in the river, which had done some damage, which had been repaired.—Accounts to the amount of £244 18a 6d were passed for payment.— The secretary stated that since last meeting be had received a visit from a deputy of the Auditor-General, who hod audited the accounts to the date of his visit, September 24th, 1881. A letter was read from the Colonial Secretary, stating that the Resident Inspector of Audit at Christchurch would bo instructed to decide remuneration upon the to be paid to tho various local bodies for the oolleetion of the rates. It was resolved that a copy of the letter sent to Mr Ollivier on the subject bo forwarded to tho Inspector of Audit. The seal of the Board was directed to be affixed to the lease, the Board to Homes. A letter was read from the collector in the Little River Road Board district, stating that the residents refused to pay the rate, and asking what was to be done in the matter. Mr Peryman said he had attended the meeting, and had given all the information he could. He pointed out that they we*e rated only at Id in the £, which amounted to £l3 odd. The resolutions carried were as follows That the Waimakariri rate levied npon this part of the district is unjust.” “ That the Waimakariri Board of Conservators, as possessing the information, be requested to state why the district should be rated.” The district required to know whether there was any part of the district which was lowlying and likely to be flooded. If the answer received was not favorable, then they intended to go up and down the district to see why they were rated. He had told them that as the loan had been raised on the whole district,'no part of it would be omitted. Mr Jones said it might be of interest to these gentlemen to know that if the river broke out where it threatened to do, it would, unless the protective works of the Board intervened, come down on the very district which now declined to pay. It was resolved that the secretary reply that the loon having been borrowed on the whole district, it was sot possible for the Board to omit any port of it from contribution.—After the transaction of some further routine business, the meeting adjourned.