WAIMEA ROAD BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 293, 4 November 1875, Page 4

WAIMEA ROAD BOARD.

Tuesday, Novshbbr 2, / The Board met at the Richmond Institution, Present — Messrs Baigent (chairman), Barnicoit, Belli Mattin, and Jordan. The minutes of last meeting having bwfo read and confirmed, The Overseer made the following re-poit:—-Thfl total sums expended iv the different Bdb-dietricls during the past month, including d*y labor, &c, t are as follows :—Stoke, £36 18s 7d ; Waimea East, ±12 63 ; Spring Grove, £20 12s; W«keflel<i, £9 4s 6d ; Waimea West, £31 5s 10i ; andrDovedale, £42 Gs. Th^se atnouota include the lowering of baoita in Pigeon Valley between Brad- i ley'e aectioo and Mr B. Fairhall'a Mill. It was necessary to c|o. this portion, a& the ,rqad was almost ioi passable. ..As. the material taken oiitwaa pretty gddd, it, will save gravelling for. a couple, ojf years ; alap the jaisiog> of fillings op Heiotz'a contract, Moutere Hills ; aU^" grrfot io 'Mr M'Go wan'rf road to J meefc equivalent aubscrip^ibna. of, £17 ,11a.. 10d j s and' also £2 : on 1 Cemetery roadV by Mr S. Biggins', being the Board's moiety of foot 1 ehaina of gravelling. Mr. William Best requests that the dUoh cvi by the Board for "the protectiop pf the road through his property st FUfern be deepened, ae-at present it floods hts.Jafad^ I', should recommend that tenders be invited for the supply of 700 yards of metal, to be delivered at 1 the following places, Viz.; Rawbotham'a road, I*o yards ; at the back of the Weateyan Chapel, 30Oyarda ; Bnr-, lace's Hill,, 100 yarj&^at .the Slaugh-ter-hoase Bridge^^SOyarfts*. Resolved, That t4|p Overseer'get the dttoh on Mr Best's land cleared oat, aad that tenders .be invited for next meeting for carting the shingle. « Thb Secretary reported ; that 'MX Fettit had lodged io his hands the amount of aabacriptions for the Bridge Valley whereupon Mr Ricketta had received notice to proceed with the. work. .The Surveyor reported haying made survey for the proposed road from . Appleby Bridge, and : communicated with Mr, Armstrong on the subject., to which no reply had yet been received. .-• Resolved, tbat (be following-lenders b& aqcepted ;r~ J. Wagataff,. for improving road in Wai-iti yaliey, £90 ; W. Newraaii, for gravelling' part of the Stanley Brook road, 26a a chain ; R. Wio, for lowering Smith's Hill, near Thorpe, £12 10s-; J. Wilkinson, for making road Over Kenyoa'a Kill, £18 ; J. Schw^aa, for formiog road on Moutere HUts, £49 15a, Also, that fresh tenders be invited for gravelling part of the read in Pigeon Valley towards Dovedale, the tenders reoeived being 'too high. r ili: Me Kelliag attended, and represantc ed the necessity of gravelling about 24 chains of the road leading (o his pro■perty, and : towards which he and his "neighbors would contribute. Thy Overseer was directed to get it done./ . A letter was received from the r/v. <Mr Moon covering a resolation of Ahe Vestry, at WakeOeld, requesting /the . - Board's assistance in clearing gora^ off , tb© road leading to the church. The Board directed their Overseer to attend to, this matter. • Warrants were signed for£l9B 7a. sd.