PUKEKOHE EAST ROAD BOARD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 14, 12 June 1912, Page 3

PUKEKOHE EAST ROAD BOARD.

It At the monthly meeting on Saturday, held at Buckland, there were present Messrs £. Allan (chairman), Dynes Fulton, Mark Jiallard, Jos. Tooman, Henry Wilcox, J. H. Craig, Walter Barnaby, J. Hartley and G. Ingram. Mrs Ida Thompson, of Pukekawa, claimed for expenses in connection witli )t a accident to her little girl, who was thrown from a buggy when jolted ib ;i rut The writer said there were uvn i dors to pay, not counting the !i.-l;" .rcment to her child, and the ■inn \ 3 ber own nerves. —The Board, in disclaiming liability, expressed their sincere sympathy, and said the metal for the roads had been ordered two months. The State-Guaranteed Advances Department intimated that the £ISOO loan (for the Tuakau-Whangarata now road) had been finally approved. Boulston Bros were granted permission to erect a slaughterhouse. It was decided to apply for grants for the following roads : £250, Bombay to Pukekohe (Raglan electorate), £l5O, Harrisville to Onewhero; £IOO, Work's hill; £350,

deviation from school to White's; £3OO, metalling hill, Pukekohe East; £IOO (Mr Wilcox) metalling; £SO, Pukekohe East-Drury road; £SO, Jamieson's road; £IOO, Tuakau to Razorback; £IOO, metalling below Smeed's on Whangarata road. The following works were authorised :—Mr Hartley, 60yds fine scoria and 49yds sand ; Mr Tooman, £5 for patching Pukekohe road; Mr Fulton, one truck scoria at Tuakau; Mr Ingram, Latta's hill up to £l2 ; Messrs Craig and Fulton, old road from Beach, pick up old metal, £lO. In discussing the proposed erection of a bridge in his locality, Mr Haitley said that the engineer's price for a bridge with a concrete base and timber top was £379, but he could do it fur £l5O. He objected to throwing away £129 of ratepayers' money. The Chairman : But would you get a £2OO worse job ? Mr Allan urged that they should go in for ferro-con-crete bridges, not timber. Mrlulton said the engineer had told him that the price of bridge timber had risen so high that there would be only £5 or £lO difference between a timber-topped bridge and concrete throughout. Mr Allan moved : That Mr James, of the Public Works Department, be asked to prepare plans for a ferroconcrete bridge, 10ft wide, and that tenders be calledrfor the work. This was seconded by Mr Craig and carried. Mr Hartley : I'll stand out of it; I know what the ratepayers want as well as the engineer.