Patea Town Board.

Patea Mail, 9 November 1880, Page 2

Patea Town Board.

The monthly meeting was held Nov. Ist, Present, Messrs Milroy (chairman;, Aitchison, Taplin, Sherwood, Dixon, Adams, and Howitt. FINANCES. The statement of receipts and expenditure for October showed balance on Ist October £69 19s 7d, cash in band £4 10s 6d, receipts to 31st £6 4s 7d, total £Bol4a Bd, Expenditure £l4 6s Id, cash in hand £4 17s lOd, showing a credit balance of £6l 10a 9d. FENCES IN MEREDITH-STREET. Proposed by Mr Sherwood, seconded by Mr Adams, and resolved, “ That notice be given to the residents of Meredith-street, informing them that the Board will form the street so soon as the fences are removed (provided the encroachments are removed within one month), on to the proper line as surveyed ; and that the Board does not feel itself justified in expending any money in the street until the fences are removed by the residents,”

transfers. Proposed by Mr Sherwood, seconded by Mr Adams, and resolved, “ That the application of Messrs Young and Connolly rc transfer of sections 6, 7, 8, Block 11, bo complied with.” verandah. Proposed by Mr Sherwood, seconded by Mr Taplin, and resolved, “That Mr Whelan’s application to erect a verandah in front of his store be granted, provided that the usual conditions be complied with.” FORMATION OF STREET. Proposed by Mr Sherwood, seconded by Mr Howitt, and resolved, “ That Staffordstreet, from the Post-office to the junction with Dorset-street, be formed.” future meetings. Proposed by Mr Aitchison, seconded by Mr Sherwood, and resolved unanimously, “ That the future meetings of the Board take place at 7 p.m.” ESTIMATES. Proposed by Mr Sherwood, seconded by Mr Aitchison, and resolved, “ That an estimate be prepared and presented at next meeting for the kerbing of the west site of Taranaki-road, from Meredith-street to Eutland-street.” Report of Inspector read and received. Petition of ratepayers re Staffiord-street read and received. NEW PATHWAY. Proposed by Mr Milroy, seconded by Mr Aitchison, and resolved,- “That in reply to petition of residents in the neighborhood of Chester-street, they be informed that a temporary pathway will be made from Dorset-street to Cornwoll-street, at an early date.” ACCOUNTS. The following accounts were presented for payment:—Hamerton, deed for J. GBeamish, £2 10s ; Hamerton, deed for Taplin and Williams, £5 8s lid ; E. Tregear, survey and levels, £8 Is ; J. E.Keys claying and gravelling, £2 18s ; P. Grace, 5 days labor £1 15s ;H, Young, days, 10s 6d. Proposed by Mr Milroy, seconded by Mr Dixon, and resolved “ That the accounts as read be passed for payment, subject to an explanation in the cases of G. D. Hamerton and E. Tregear.” REPORTS, Report of Works Committee, for the month of October, was read as follows : “ Work authorised on Dorset-street has been let by tender to Mr Luke for the sum of £2B 5s Od, and is now being carried out as per plan and specification. Ten loads of gravel have been deposited on York-street at a cost of £2 7s 6d. Day’ labour has] been employed in clearing rushes on Dovon-strect, filling in ruts on Dorset-street, spreading gravel on York" street, and on several other streets, cutting thistles, and clearing out water-ways, amounting to 64 days at 11s per day. The engineer received instructions to prepare plans for improvements authorised on Derby, Meredith, and York-streets, Said plans have been forwarded to the Board.” The Engineer reported that “According to instructions I have taken the permanent levels of Derby-street, Meredith-street, and Middleecx-strcet (extended). I have fixed the coiners of Meredith-street, and would call the attention of the Board to the question of fence removal being considered before the contracts for gravelling footpath on the south side are let. There is an encroachment of nearly' 3 feet upon the street at its centre. I have taken levels and prepared specifications for the removal of the mound at junction of Bedford and York-streets- I have also to call urgent notice to the fact of no clay having been cut in the Dorset-street contract. It will be finished within a few days, and if nothing is done to secure the embankment and batten of cutting, it will be trodden into uselessness by cattle, and the money lost which has been expended. Clay could be procured from a street about three chains from the present cutting. I have made a survey of road near Hospital, but on account of discrepancies of boundaries I was obliged to request advice from the chief surveyor in New Plymouth, and thus will not be able to snpply the finished plan of this survey (required by the Board) until next meeting.” The Inspector of Nuisances reported : “ I have the honor to report the removal or abatement of the following nuisances— Removal of nuisance from sections at the rear of Masonic Hotel. Abatement of nuisauce at the rear of City Butchery ; abatement of nuisance in Leicester-street. 1 also caused closet to be erected to property owned by Mr S. Taplin, and have given notice for one to be erected in Vic-toria-street, and have caused removal of nuisance from Bedford-street.

A report comes from Wellington that the Ministry not being satisfied with the Property Tax paper returns, have summoned a Committee of Bank Managers to examine them, to see that persons had not under-valued their property.