TUAKAU TOWN BOARD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 163, 7 April 1916, Page 4

TUAKAU TOWN BOARD.

Monthly Meeting. The regular monthly meeting of th 9 above authority was held on Tuesday evening. Present: Messrs. i Dynes Fulton (Chairman), H. B. Free, W. Strahan, H. Craig, J. Pirret, W. Glasgow, Capt. Ryder, together with lite Clerk Mr A. H. Tapper. AN APPRECIATION". The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey), as Chairman of the Recruiting Board, conveyed a message of appreciation and the thanks of the Recruiting Board to the Board for the assurance that they would assist the new recruiting scheme in evory way in their power. The Recruiting Board, tho letter said, was very gratified at the ready response which had boon made to its appeal for help iu the great work, and it was contident that given the active and sympathetic co-operation of local bodies and citizens generally there would be no diliiculty in providing all the men necessary to fullil obligations without any resort to compulsion. UOAH 1" HJS I.TEXKD. Mr Win. James Taylor made application for the road adjoining his property iu George street to be onened up. He pointed out that it was overrun with noxious weeds and rabbits.—lt was resolved that the necessary steps be taken to opon tho road and that Messrs Taylor aud M. B. Geraghty, whoso properties fronted the road, should be notified to remove the noxious woeds and further it was decided to call on Mr Geraghty to remove the fence that stood on tho road. TIIE UEUI'.ATi' X Ol A KOAH. Mr R. Bycroft wrote stating that he had arranged to sell a portion of his property at Tuakau to the Waikato Co-operative Dairy Company conditionally on a deviation road being completed and dedicated. He suggested that as his solicitor had informed him that in order to give a title to any portion sold the width ef the road would have to be 75 links instead of 50, the alteration should be effected in the making out of the new plans and the survey for the deviation road.—The clerk was instructed to request Mr Bycroft to meet the Board and its Engineer on tho site in connection with the proposal. THE OVERHEAD liKJDOE.

The District Engineer, Eailway Department, wrote enquiring if the Board would be prepared to proceed with the formation of the approaches if the Department put the construction of the proposed overhead bridge, at the level crossing, in hand. The Chairman thought that the Board should not entertain the idea of making the approaches. Capt. Eyder agreed with the Chairman.

It was resolved that the clerk should send a letter as under to the District Engineer of the Eailway Department and also copies to the Prime Minister and the Minister for Railways with a request that the Ministers should look into the matter, viz : "Be an overhead bridge at the level crossing at Tuakau station : I am directed to state that the Town Board desires something more definite than is contained iu a letter of yours. The Town Board is having a scheme prepared for the improvement of the Eoads generally and purposes proceeding with tho work at an oarl v dato. Unless the Board knows just what the Eailway Department intends and is prepared to do it is quite impossible for our Engineer to lay oil' the work iu the neighbourhood of the level crossing with a view to permanency and a change in the Department's arrangements at Tuakau may land tho Board into considerable additional expense if its Engineer is working in tho dark as to what the Department contemplates doing. We therefore request an answer at your very earliest as to whether the Department will construct and find the entire cost of an overhead biidgo at the level crossing, such bridge to be as low as practicable and t) be not less than 28 feet wide between tho railings and with sufiicient wing walls to receive the embaukniODts carrying the approaches. It is quite out of the question for the Board to "undertake any part of tho cost of tho bridge and it would assist the Board very materially if ihe Department would supply scoria for the dry walls necessary for the batters of tho embankments as the earthwork in tho embankments and tho additional bridgo work over the stream east of the liuo will be costly items. Tho bridge south of the station is a matter tho holding over of which does not in any way all'ect the scheme for road improvement immediately contemplated."

It was resolved to ask Mi Jits. Henderson to open the dedicated road leading from George street to Lis property and to complete the entrance as agreed with the County Engineer. The Works Committee were deputed to attend to a dangerous tide channel at the corner of Bollard and Carr streets and to a drain at the entrance to Mr Madill's gate aLd fuither to the foot-bridge portion cf the Ilarrisville bridge, which had been broken.