BOARD OF CONSERVATORS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2709, 13 December 1882, Page 3

BOARD OF CONSERVATORS.

The usual monthly meeting of tha South Waimakariri Board of Conservators was held in their rooms, Hereford street, yesterday, at 2 p.m. Present —Messrs P. Jones (chairman), H. W. Peryman, W. Boag, W. White, jun., H. Atkinson, Attwood and E. W. England. Some correspondence respecting the transfer of a lease from Mountfort to Bale was read. The matter was allowed to stand over. The Foreman of Works reported on the progress of operations at various points. The report was approved, everything being stated to be satisfactory. In consequence of some remarks by Mr England it was thought advisable that soundings should be taken near No. 1 Groyne, at Chaney’s corner, which showed an inclination to cant up stream. The foreman had already been instructed to take the necessary steps to secure the work. The Chairman, in view of it being the last meeting of the present Board, read a minute report of their proceedings during their term of office from January, 1881, to December 12th, 1882, It contained a complete history and details of the expenditure and work done in the period. Attached were various returns, by which it appeared that the receipts in 1881 were .£5280 9s Id, and in 1882 .£10,176 8s 2d. The expenditure had been in 1881 .£4197 6s, .and in 1882 £5260 9s Id. The receipts in 1882 included £SOOO on debentures taken up by the Christchurch Gas Company. The rates collected in 1881 amounted to £2659 3s ; in 1882 to £3244 3s 4d. Rents of reserves, 1881, £1037 3s 8d ; 1882, £Bl2 Is 9d. On December 12th there were rates outstanding to the amount of £760 17s 6d, and of rents, £230 16s 4d. There had been an increase in the latter year of the rateable value in the district of Sf- per cent., and in the city of Christchurch of 7 i per cent. For 1882 the city is rated at £1973 15s 4d, and the district £3145 2s 4d. The value of the reserves, if capitalised at 6 per cent, on the rentals, is £17,400. The river protection works, undertaken by the Board, had been singly, and as a whole, quite successful, and not of a costly nature. In addition to the river works proper the planting on the reserves had been gone into rather extensively, and £250 had been appropriated for this purpose in the coming season in the neighbourhood of the upper and lower works. The report as read was adopted. It was resolved to inform tenants in arrear that as the present Board were about to retire the amounts outstanding would be recovered in the usual manner. It was also decided to write to the various local bodies in the district urging them to pay in all balances they held, and to get in all outstanding rates, attention in this connection being called to clause 24 of the Canterbury Rivers Act, which defines their duties in that respect. A lease, the Board to Phillpot, was completed in the usual manner. Some discussion took place about increasing the salary of the clerk, but it was decided to leave the matter to bo dealt with by the new Board. Accounts amounting to £487 Hs 4d were passed for payment. A vote of thanks was unanimously passed to the chairman for his very efficient services in the past two years, to which he responded in suitable terms, and the meeting adjourned.