ROAD BOARDS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2421, 9 January 1882, Page 3

ROAD BOARDS.

HEATHCOTE. The above Board met on January 6tb, at 10 a.m. Present—Messrs F. Jones, J. S. Monok* W.' Attwood, E. J. T. Ford, and B. Brown. Mr F. Jones was unanimously elected chairman for the ensuing year. The clerk reported that his accounts had been .audited by the Distriot Provincial Auditor, and they were open for inspection. The receipts were reported to be £ll4 5s Id. Mr J..T.Fisher waited on the Board with referenoe to a road to his land, B.S. 21. It was resolved to go and inspeot it on Monday next. Mr Stanley Edwards also interviewed the Board for a certificate as to the stopping of road in 8.8. 138. The ohairman was authorised to sign it. The clerk reported that he had purchased a lamp for Stanmore road from Messrs Anderson. Approved of. A letterwaß read from the chief surveyor re removal of datum stone on Ensor's road. The clerk to reply. It was resolved to give notice that no person would be allowed to out flax on the banks of the river. The olerk was instructed to make application to the Selwyn County Council for reserve 107. After passing accounts for £261 14s 2d the Board adjourned. OUST. The annual meeting of ratepayers was held on Monday, January 2nd ; Mr W. Anderson in the chair. The chairman reod the report and balance-sheet, which showed —Receipts, £8595 2s 9d; expenditure, £lsßl 14s 3d; leaving a balance, £lOl3 8s 6d, to the credit of the Board. Some questions in regard to certain items of expenditure hoving been satisfactorily answered by the ohairman, Mr proposed that the report and bclaaoe-aheet be adopted, and that the thanks of the meeting be given to the Board for the large amount of work done during the year with so little olerioal expense. Seconded by Mr Dickenson and carried. The_ chairman said the next business was the election of two members to serve on the Board in the places of Messrs Biddle and Grant. The following were nominated :—Messrs T. B. Howson, G. G. Gardner, G. Biddle, and T. Tollat. The show of hands was—For Howson, 9 ; Gardner, 9 ; Biddle, 4 ; Tollat, 3. Mr O'Farrell demanded a poll on behalf of Mr Tollat. The following is the result of the pall :—Howson, 31 ; Gardner, 28 ; Biddle, 28 ; Tollat, 15. The ohairman gave his casting vote in favor of Mr Gardner, and declared Messrs Howson and Gardner duly ' elected. A meeting of the Board wob held j after the election, when Mr Wm. Anderson { was unanimously elected ohairman for the I ensuing year. ;