WAIMEA ROAD BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 57, 7 March 1874, Page 2

WAIMEA ROAD BOARD.

Tuesday, March 3. Tho Board mot at the Bridge Hotel. Present : Messrs Baigent, (chairman), Rout, Tunnicliff, Win, and Thomson. The minutes of the Inst meeting having been read and confirmed, the Overseer reported, "That the parties applied to, declined to deliver gravel at the wharf. Tenders should bo invited for screening gravel in Mr Rout's paddock at Stoke, without delay, also for getting 500 yards out of the Richmond pit, or from the beach, as provision muet be made for material for repairing the main trunk line between Richmond and towu ere the wet weather sets in." Resolved, " That tenders be invited at once for getting 250 yards from Richmond pit, and tbat the Overseer procuro 50 yards from Mr E. F. Martin." The tenders for gravelling in Waimea West having been examined, Mr L. Droo's tender of £l a chain was accepted. The Secretary reported having written to all tbe parlies whose properties were likely to be interfered with by tbe proposed road. from Quail Valley to Foxhill, and tbat the replies as yet received were satisfactory A letter was read from Mr T. Hunt, one of the parties likely to. be affected, who firmly objected to its going through his land, as the ground is better and firmer, on the other side of the fence, nnd he has no direct interest in tbe road, having only as one of the general public, headed the petition for the makiog of the road. The Surveyor was directed to lay out the road and bring plan and report to next meeting. Also to inform Mr Hunt that the Board being unwilling to annoy him, propose to take the road along tbe flat through the adjoining section, which will probably be more satisfactory to those parties who are interested in having communication with Foxhill. A letter was read from the Secretary of the Pangatotara Road Board, explaining tbat tbe £100 voted under the head "Ngatimoti to the Dove" was for the purchase of a site and making a piece of road in lieu of that washed away by the great flood of 1872, on which work it had been already expended, and not for tbe road from Orinoco to the Dove, towards which it is proposed to appropriate part of the grant under the payment to Provinces Act. Resolved, " That the Board having been under a misapprehension as to the object of the vote, tbe Overseer and Becretary t«ke the earliest opportunity of visiting Dovedale, and dociding on the line of road to be adopted on the Waimea side of the boundary, aud inform the Pangatotara Board." The deputation which had examined tbe proposed lines for a road from Pigeon Valley to Dovedale, reported, " That in their opinion the line cut by the Dovedale residents would be the most suitable one." The Surveyor was therefore directed to lay before the next meeting working plans and specifications for this line. The list of works proposed to be done out of the grant uuder the Payment to Provinces Act 1873 4>, having been examined and revised was ordered to be sent to the Superintendent for. his approval' In reference to Mr J. Rutherford's complaint about the steepness of the gradient where the railway crosses the " Clover Road," which had been communicated to the Resident Engineer, tbe reply was that thespecifiedgradient will be I in 25, which is hot considered steep. Warrants were signed for £107 lis lld Messrs Andrews and Hunter applied by letter to have the road in Eve's Valley marked out, which was ordered to be done, also that the Overseer and Surveyor prepare specifications and estimates of the work to be done and let the work if not exceeding estimate, if otherwise, invite tenders, and require subscribers to deposit their subscription . The Board's conttibution not to exceed £17 10_. A list of subscriptions towards clearing and forming the road in Hoult's Valley was received, which the Board agreed to supplement by an equivalent. The Overßeer and Surveyor to prepare specifications &c, aDd let if practicable, Resolved " That when tbe Overseer and Sivveyor shall be engaged in the assessment. Mr John Very, on behalf ofthe ratepayers of Waimea South, and Mr W. Bell on behalf of those iD Waimea West, accompany them aud be consulted as to the valuation of properties in tho respective districts.