KARORI-MAKARA HIGHWAY BOARD.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5188, 7 November 1877, Page 3

KARORI-MAKARA HIGHWAY BOARD.

A meeting of the above Highway Board was held on the 3rd instant. Present—Messrs. Graham (chairman), Page, and Bowler. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. The bank account was stated to he £312 Bs. 9d. at credit. A letter was read from Mr. Toohill stating that the nuisance complained of as existing on his premises was not due to him, but to the neighboring premises used as a slaughterhouse by °Mr. Wright, a member of the Board.— Consideration postponed in consequence of Mr. Wright’s absence. The Chairman stated that Mr. Robinson, the Board’s collector, had explained personally the reason of his absence from the Board’s office on the day advertised by him, and had promised that no cause for a similar complaint should arise in future. A letter from the Treasury was read, stating that £173 6s. 2d., being the half-year’s subsidy, had been paid to the credit of the Board. The Clerk was instructed to call the contractor’s attention to several parts of the road where metal was much wanted, particularly on the north side of Mr. Lancaster’s property, and request his immediate attention to the matter; and also to the fact of some of the culverts in the Makara-hill requiring to be opened, and a new one laid down, to be done with earthenware pipes. An application from Mr. J. C. Crawford for a contribution of £3B towards the making aud repairs of roads in the Peninsula was agreed to. In reply to an application from the purchasers of building lots in the new township of Kilbirnie for a grant not exceeding £l7O in aid of the proposed road through the Town Belt, the Clerk was instructed to state that the Board were unable to comply with the request at present, the amount of rates received from the property in question being a mere trifle ; but that so soon as the rating was adjusted on a proper basis, the request would meet with liberal consideration. The Education Board having made an application for exemption from rates, it was decided that the collector be instructed not to press for the same. The following accounts were passed, and ordered to be paid;—E. Street, £ls ; J. Hooper, £lO ; R. Duiguan, £1 ; E. Nash, £1 ss. 6d. ; J. Campbell, £2 ; McLeavy, 14s.