UPPER MOTUEKA ROAD BOARD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 224, 21 September 1877, Page 2

UPPER MOTUEKA ROAD BOARD.

The Board met on Saturday last. Members present— Messrs. Coleman, Needham, Phillips, and Oliver (chairman). After the miautes of last meeting were read and confirmed, tenders were opened for contracts Nos. 4 and 5, Hope-road. The tenders of D J. M'Rae of £177 for No. 4, and £472 for No. 5 were accepted. Tenders were also received for forming, in Motueka Valley, aud the tender of E. Stanley of 9s 9d per chain was accepted. One tender was received for gravelling iv Tadmor Valley, but being too higb it was resolved to have the necessary repairs done by day-work. Resolved— that tenders be invited for a breast-cutting by Mr Bromell's, and clearing a roadway across the river-bed. Read a letter from the Secretary of the Waimea Road Board desiring to be informed what length of road between Motueka and Upper Motueka, on the road to tbe Buller, is still incomplete, and how much the Board contemplate doing with the grant lately received from fche Government. Resolved—fchat the Secretary of the Waimea Board be informed thafc, between Motueka Valley and the crossing of the StanleyBrook stream, three miles of road partly formed will require metal and drainage hefore it will stand traffic, and oue mile between the Stanley Brook crossing and the Waimea boundary is untouched ; that this Board has not received any grant, nor a promise of any for thafc road; that from Newport's to the Buller, 18 miles, the road will be fairly passable when contracts are completed, and thafc, between the end of the above four miles and Newport's, 17 miles, the road is passable. The Secretary reported having laid out a line of road on the route from Stanley Brook to Wakefleld, different to the one laid out by Mr T*. Griffith, the cutting on the new line certainly not being heavier than fche other. The spur runs north and south; the old line has the eastern, and the new hue has the western exposure; the length of the old line from point of deviation to junction is 12£ chains, the length of the new line is 83-J, the saving in construction £80. A letter was read from Mr Symes giving a reason for his absence, aud protesting against the short line, &c. Resolved, That Messrs Coleman and Needham go over both lines with the Secretary, and that the line be adopted which they approve, tenders to be sent iv by tbe next meeting of the Board to be held on Saturday, October 13. Resolved, tbat tenders ba invited fo gravelling 40 chains in Tadmor Valley by Mr Needham's. Accounts were passed and paid amounting to £157 ss.