WAIMEA ROAD BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 86, 10 April 1875, Page 4

WAIMEA ROAD BOARD.

Tuesday, April 6. The Board met at the Bridge Hotel. All the members present. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and confirmed, The Overseer made the following report: — " The gravelling at Stoke is beiug proceeded with, at a cost of £3 per ehuin. The carting is done by contract at 4s per yard. There i 6 about 20 chains finished and will require another 10 to complete this length. I have inspected the work done by Major Patou ou the road at Hope, All gorsa on the side fronting his property has been well grubbed up, and the ditch cleaned out (it is not j quite completed.) This gorse was blocking up the road. The same work requires doing on the opposite side, faciusr the property of Mr Benjamin Primmer. When this is done the road will inquire forming, or a few chains of gravelling might be done to render it passable duriog the ensuing winter, and a two foot culvert put in at the junction of the cross roads. In Spring Grove repairs by gravelling have been done to the amount of £18 at Fortyliue, and £21 by Painton's. At the foot of Quail Valley an approach into the river has been made, and five chains of gravelling done for the sum of £7 9s. In Dovedale £18 10a 6d has been expended in repairs. The Overseer was directed to f fleet repairs to the extent of £12, on the road at Major Paton's as an equivalent to the work done by him, in consideration of which he will be expected to keep the road clear of gorse henceforth. „., The Surveyor reported that the injury to the footbridge at Thorpe has been caused by the sun acting for the greater part of the day on one side only of the bridge, in consequence of which the long spans of which it is composed have sprung so much as to cause a considerable list in the opposite direction, to remedy which he proposed Gome piling being done in order to reduce the span and afford means for bracing, up the structure and thus avoid the necessity for taking it down. This wbs ordered to be done. The Surveyor produced plans and sections of a road and proposed alteration at Ford's Hill, Dovedale, and pointed out that the alteration only avoided one out' of two steep banks, while by continuing the deviation a continuous easy gradient was obtainable. This waß ordered to be surveyed. No elegible tenders having been received for cutting a channel in Pigeon Valley, and for certain works ou the Quarantine road, the Overseer was directed to proceed with the first, and tenders were ordered to be invited for the other work. The list of worka proposed to be executed by means of the Payment to Provinces grant having been examined the most pressing items were selected fci* submission to the Government for approval. Resolved, "That W. Boddingtoa's tender of £111 lOs for forming part of the Main South road, Wpi-iti Valley ; J Griffith's at £26 per chain, for clearing and forming roads in Hoult's Valley; aud L. Hintze's at £44, for forming on the Moutera Hille, be aocepted." PJau and section, showing the proposed improvements on the Moutera Hills road, were considered,' and such improvements ordered to be carried out ai first available opportunity. The Surveyor reported having laid out, at the request of Messrs Tbomhs and Holland, a road through Mr Hij^pin's land at Bell Grove, the estimated cost of clearing and making a passable track being £60. As thisroud does not appear likely to be beneficial except to the applicants, aud therefore does' not come within the class of byeronds to which the Board's rulo as to subsidy' applies, the Board could not promise any assistance, but referred the" applicants to the Government who might have power to assist. 'A letter from the Provincial Secretary was read, stating that in order to save time the Government hud agreed wiih Mr Tarrant to lay off the roads from Thorpe to,. Orinoco and to Stanley Brook and the Graham Valley. The Surveyor reported that previous to the receipt of this letter he bad surveyed a considerable portion of the road towards Stanley Brook and hoped to complete the whole by next meeting. In repiy to au application from the owners of land in Trass' Valley it was agreed to grant £10 to meet equivalent subscriptions for gravelling a portion oftheroad. \Mr Hildreth attended and requested assistance in improving the road by Mr Horlington's property. £2 was granted to meet an equal amount of labor. ( Mr Croucher applied fo* permission to erect a weighbridge on the street at Richmond near his mill, which was grauted on condition that no obstruction be caused thereby, either to traffic or drainuge, and that the erection shall be removed whenever it shall be considered an inconvenience to the public. "Warrants were signed for £194 4s Id.

The Good Templars are talking of erectiDg a Good Templar Hotel on the vacant space of land between Shortland street and Chancery lane, which, if cur'rieii but, may have a good moral effect oq the wild, drunken inhabitants cffHh 8 * locality. Such an idea is not realised, however, id a week, but ultimately it may^ be seen. — Evening Star,'