UPPER MOTUEKA ROAD BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 81, 7 April 1877, Page 4

UPPER MOTUEKA ROAD BOARD.

The monthly meeting of this Board | was held on Saturday last.— Mr J. Griffith having been elected in room of Mr T. Griffith resigned, took his seat, and all the other members were present except Mr Rig by. — After the minutes of last meeting had been read and confirmed, a number of letters were read, including one from the Clerk of the Waimea County Council, requesting a. detailed account of the damage done by the late flood, and a careful estimate of the cost of repairing the same,— The Secretary reported having examined the road from Newport's to the Buller river; he estimated the coat of "repairing the damage done to the seventeen miles of road at £95. The •total estimate of damage within the (district amounted to £415. A copy of the estimates furnished to the Waimea County Council was read, from which the v above figures are taken. Another letter was read from the Socretary to the Treasury at Wellington, requesting to be famished with the rateable value of the' district,' as contained in the Valuation List for the year ending March, 1878, as a basis upon which to : calculate the subsidy for the six months ] 'ending Jane next, as thef Board seemed j to comply with the provisions ; of the 32nd Section of "The Financial Arrangements Act, 1876.—-Re-solved, -tn^ji the Secretary to the; Treasury be informed in reply that the Board has complied with the provisions of the Act, haying given the total amount of ail the rateable property in the district, that by •« The Nelson Highways Act,'' Section 24, one penny in the pound on the value to sell iB equivalent to a ahilliog in the pound on the annual value; that to make the Valuation List for the year ending March, 1878 the basis upon which to calculate the Biftaidy for the year ending June next, liln violation of Section 8 of "TheFinancial Arrangement^ Act; 1876," and that by the 32nd section the time for receiving returns has expired. A letter was read irom Mr Adams, offering to sell land for a road where the Tadmor river had , taken the road away, for £10. Two letters were read from Mr Pitt ou behalf of Mr Rolet; one asking for £16 10a aa compensation for land taken for road through section 99 at the Sherry, and the other requesting the Board to pay £90, the value of horse Wd gdoda lost in Norris' Gully on Monday the sth of February. Resolved, % reply to tbe former, that there is a right of road through section 99, that ..the Board cannot cancel that right, and .that as the Board has abandoned that; road it gives it up as far as it can do so. In reply to the other claim it was i resolved, That Mr Pitt be informed that if he thinks he has a gocd case be can take it into Court. Resolved, That Mr Roeake be paid the amount previously agreed upon, deducting the .Secretary's value of work, which has doc been executed. Accounts were passed amounting to £111 2a 6d, of which £78 7s 6d bad: "been paid to the day laborers for repairing damages done in the beginning of February last. It was resolved that the next meeting be held on the sth ; ; May at 10 a.m. j