UPPER MOTUEKA ROAD BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 107, 8 May 1877, Page 2

UPPER MOTUEKA ROAD BOARD.

The monthly meeting of the Board wag held on Saturday last, all the members being present The therlast meeting Were read arid con ffrmed. J. White waited »|»n ttie Board, andi requested that. a road be fnade to hts'hOuse. K He „fca(_id th_f; the itoad r 6oqlcl;ribfe'lJe ritade :r as'laid 'wit J 6ri 'IB.'-'pian^. - arid that the diggers would ndt s l_t" nim tip tlie river bed r ifr-being alt taken up-by -their - blaims, ; and J^e-^iaipassable^withr -their workitigs; the CbbiMsslonfir of 'CWwnXahds r , could do nothing-iS'th^ malftcsr/and referred ;' hita to th? Bjoa^^So^nL : It^solved^iTriafi the ' . Secretary be instraqledtOjcall on the Comfnissioner of Crown Lands, and ascertain \ iprhat the Board can'doTo assist Mr White in ' the matte*. 'A Resolved j 3 That 'alFcH^lwotk be ,- stopped. A letter tai_ ireceWed from 3_r • DmnMpoad^king the. ;BoArd\to pay, bjm.i at gart/ Iqt2 tjlsg repairs .-.ex^cutediqnj th© r^ { j36l^^h : .hia/J[an(|; (;2 prgmmond be referred to a letter he figseived. -. from the Board dated September ..5,.J874, ' and that he be requested to clear the Wangapeka track of the trees, which W- has felled acrosaiit:-' Refsolved, That tlie AJjoJueka Board be requested to make the part'of "the Baton road betwden the Motueka rivdr i_nd : £he-tbp of Byrne's clearing at least 'passable for carts, the- seven miles of .road in this district being in course of sonstructibrii A letter *aa received from the" Clerk tq the Waimea i County Coiaricll ' requestifig -jo Be; fhrhislied Witlv'the amourifr'of a rates'lbvie_.' or which riaight have been levied on the valuation list made in accordance with the Rating Act, * lß7#, /a__L__a uambuafe Ajof TiatlaT cSHefet^d"* i the year enfUng^Slst^f. March, 1877. -'• Resolved, That t_e Clerk Wthe Waimea' •S^aty^Cqunci|Ll^i_inf9c W ed thatmoriEate'has. or cs^W |wre iheeifcleYiedjOo. theiKahiation Ijdst aftf^^, &rs«& ending J.ujne f; l®h <L i>Bl7,,Mb^?OE©thebßating , Act was pa^edt: PPSde ia *kqo*dalf_e. with tbe - r 4^. | l > §7^. t «ir^.(l^ >)^ : herj99pptiqd \*ith a copy^.of .^urn^ifur^hedojto the Secretary to the' 1 _X(?^iy" in 'accordance '■ with the Financial Arrangements Act, 1876, '>: vjz. f The total, aniftunt^pf. all. the rateable property "Within the aistrict i- J.44,33i, accprdjng to Section2'4 of the-Neli^n Highways Act, 1872, equivalent to-an annual value of J^36§4j4a.7tH9 emqjjut q£ aates cojleot^i: id : the year ending 31st March, 1877, being £183 ! lis 7d. Resolved., That ratepayers;,^ informed tha't unless' iu^jje'paid' immedi- , ately, proceedings' will be taken to recover , tb,e same. Resolved; That next meeting be held ; op June 2nd atiip.-aim..'; Ao_b_jEit9 were