REEFTON ROAD BOARD.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 38, 6 July 1877, Page 2

REEFTON ROAD BOARD.

A special meeting of the members of the Road Board was held at the office, Broadway, on Wednesday la9t. There were present, Messrs Brennau, Kelly, Aiken, Dick, and Pavies. The minutes of the previous meeting were read Bud confirmed. The meeting bad been called chiefly to deal with tenders sent in for the erection of suspension bridge, and for the maintenance of sections 2 and 4 of the Buller Eoad. The following tenders were opened :

11 " ........ *^~-IZSS «ssp»f»^ SUSPEKSIOS BBiEDQßi^pi^i|f^||^i C. Gardner j t .'g£4Bfi^&s; f M C. Gardner (if totarar*qmred)6stf?(J®|f^ - : B. G. Hankin ... j ... :648§fl^iP' J. O'Bmn ... s^oJJp^:E ; Mr Danes proposed that thefcjton^eloiSWs C. Gardiner be accepted' ? Mr Dick was of opinion that iSSenSePvT should be accepted, as hefelt cerfcmrtha# & the work could be done for Terr laid&^U less. In any case he thought they subaia^S dispense with the footbridge and erect a^fe dray bridge at once. , S Mr Davies said that tbe cost of a dray ■■ bridge would not be less than £2500 by Mr Woolley that a dray bridge coald be erected at a very much less sum than that stated. Mr Dick reckoned Ihe cost of a dray bridge at £800, and felt sure it could be erected for that sum upon deferred pay* ment. Mr Aiken said that Graham and Allen had made an offer to the Board to construct a dray bridge upon moderate terms. Mr Davies said he had spoken to Mr Alien on the unhject, and the latter' gave the cost as £2500, which was merely a rough guess. Mr Kelly said the matter had already *been so fully diseased that he could not see the necessity o e prolonging the matter further. He would, therefore, second the resolution. Mr U'ck would propose as an amend* ment, that none of the tenders sent in b 6 accepted, being all too high. Mr Aiken seconded the amendment. . The amendment was then put and lost, i the rotes beiug Ayes, Messrs Dick, , M'Lean, and Aiken, and Noes, Messrs Brennan, Kelly, and Davies, and the Chairman gave bis casting rote with the 1 Noes. The original resolution' was then put i and carried. At this stage of ihe proceedings, Mr ' Dick rose from the table and expressed 1 his intention of resigning his seat at once,, and with these remarks left the <■ room. , Mr M'Lean expressed the opinion that p the Board had acted arbitrarily in thd , matter. There was three against three, and one side was entitled to as much con* ' sideration as the other, and it looked very , much as though the matter was be'ng I thrust down their throats. Messrs M'Lean and Aiken then also withdrew. 5 A number of accounts were then snb* I mitted, and having been passed for pay* b ment, the meeting adjourned, t « — -

SECTION HO. 2. £ 6. R. Wolfe 350 0 D. M'Gahey 359 0 Lyons and Boss 363 0 J. O'Donnell 879 0 D. Davine 385 0 J. O'Brien 400 0 — Arnold 400 0 Mofloy aud Courtney ... 418 10 J. Osborn ■. 460 0 SECTION 170. 4. £ s. A.Cereseto... ... ... 445 0 . J. Quillinane ... ... 447 0 M. O'Eegan 455 0 J. Osborn 640 0 — Arnoid 640 0 D. M'Gahey 549 0 Mr Davies moved, and Mr Kelly seconded, that the tender of 11. Wolfe and A. Cereseto be accepted. Carried.