PALMERSTON NORTH LOCAL BOARD.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 56, 2 May 1877, Page 3

PALMERSTON NORTH LOCAL BOARD.

A meeting of the Local Board took place m the office of the Board, on Saturday, April 2Sth, 1877. COMMISSIONEBS PEESENT. Messrs J. Linton (Chairman), T. E. Walton, W. McDouall, Solomon Abrahams.; MINUTES. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, the following correspondence was laid upon the table. " Letter from the County Chairman, requesting a -return of Local Board valuation &d. Letter from J. T. Stewart, E?q., relative to Using the old tramway rails. Resolved, — To ask the District Engineerforperinission to makeuse of a portion o£ the' said rails for the purpose of kerbing. and culverts m main street. A petition, was presented by Commissioner Abrahams, from residents on the ! lower flat,- asking for a culvert m the creek crossing Princes-street. Resolved, — That the necessary work be executed/ MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS/ Resolved,— To call tenders for • clear-

ing logs from upper end of Grey-street, the water table be deepened from Owen's corner to the Forester's Hall, to drain that portion of the Square. Complaints having been receive .-1. by the Board as to the filthy state «!' Mr Owen's pigs lye m Cuba-street, ii was resolved, that he receive notice to remove the same forth with. ACCOUNTS PASSED FOR PAYMENT. Kichler, Nanncstad, and Co., £6 4s srl; Secretary's salary, £0 ss ; Valuator's fee, £10; Surveyor's charges, £2 2a; Overseer's wages and extra labor, £13 lfis 3d; Taonui-sireet contract, £2(5 4s 6d. The Board to meet again on first Saturday m June.