WAIMEA ROAD BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 7, 8 January 1876, Page 2

WAIMEA ROAD BOARD.

' \ Tuesday, January 4. i The Board niet.at the Riphinond . .lnstitute. All tbe members ' present ie'xdepV Messrs Baigent, Tonnicliff, Ball, and Jordan. ! T$S nji^otesJOff Uat Meeting shaving been reid, the "Overseer reported tbat several of the day-labor: men "nave availed: themselves <of ■ the liberty, as granf'e'd oh fqrrijer occasions to absent themselves 5 ifrdm 'work during the harvest. With regard to -the most suitable material for filling in the ditches on/eih^r side of Forty-line 1 , t have examined < lpcalitf , andi consider- it ,yn\\ be^more, easily got from* the Wai-iti riyep than ' from elsewhere. The sum of 'jeii'OsV granted to bye*road at Ranzau, together-wlth its equivalent, has been... .expended in Rravelling. The deviation' of- road r k'nowna8 Ford?B Hill stiould be prpqeeded^with as.soon a.B possible, if, it is thtf*Board'fl intention' to undertake- this work, as also any contemplated.improvements on the Mouf ere Hills road ; these works being 'principalljr- fillings,. sufflcieat\time ; shpu\d"Sbe allowedjior settling s down^ef ore / the' winter. The, Eighty -.eight Valley , bridge, requires painting,' alsp-ttie fo6tb'ridge j 'over the Wai-iti/ ' I should suggest that some.bem'«tite be procured, and all the smaller bridges be painted by the day-labor ,men. c . It; will . be iiecessary to coat the road, in c frontldf*.Mr:Mejiral.for a lerigthpf, 20. chains;. this work can be done, at , one-third the cost during the summer; if left* till the winter, being at such a distance from the gravel (that is the-river), the car's will create work as .they go on. The T tlme haying elapsed, Viz I 'six 1 months, I 'for the supply of horses/and c.a,rtß4n* ; the^different sub districts , fresh tenders should be Invited. ' ' ' Resolved, That tenders bs invited for supplying horses and carts, and that the other matters namsdin the Overseer's, report stand; over tillinext month; the purchase of ttieaewi road at Ford's Hill not being as yet completed, and some levelling being still to be done onthe.Moutere Hills. . ni r : •-. - Resolved, That the. tender of ' - H. J Midgetey,* at £52; for lowering the bank near Mr Holland's, and filling the hollow 15ft wide, be accepted,. ;. , >v ,. s „:;.;; ' . A letter .was read from the; 'Prpvjnoinl; Pecretary, in reply, to one from the Board, v reporting thjs acceptance of , a tender for- ; a. bridge afei Bell Grove, stating that the Government will be prepared, to. make payments- on. advance of that work ss it progresses, on receipt of proper certificates.' . - A complaint having been made that a specification left at the Turf Hotel bad been allowed to be taken away, 'to the detriment .of an intending tenderer' for work it was decided that in; future specifications be left at Mr Beatfcie'e store. 'Warrantswereissued lor £17,1 18s 4d.

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