WAITOA ROAD BOARD.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 294, 29 August 1888, Page 2

WAITOA ROAD BOARD.

The usual monthly meeting" of the above Board took place last Saturday. Present : Messrs Chepmell (in the chair), Burnett, Horrell, and Turn bul I, Mr Pavitt, the Engineer, was also in attendance. Among 1 the inward correspondence were : A memorandum from the Property Tax Commissioner reporting having forwarded a voucher to the Treasury for* the payment of £31 ss, balance of subsidy. — A petition from cloven rtsidents on Block IX Te Aroha suburbs, earnestly desiring the Board to ! do something to improve the road in the j neighbourhood of their sections. — A letter from six residents at Waihou wishing the Board to make a better outfall for the water in th# roadside drain between the saleyard and the hotel. The Board decided to get the outfall ditch clearod out as far as the road, and the En^inoor was instructed to inspect ] and report on the matter referred to in the petition. The Engineer was also instructed to inspect and report- on the road which the Government has recently laid off from the bridge on Taylors road to the main road between the Waihou township and Te Aroha, on which residents in the neighbourhood have asked the Board to make improvements. The Board, it iq thought, will easily manage to spend the farthing rate -when collected considering the number of applications that are being made For road works, both by those who are ratepayers and a number who are not ratepayers. It h said that some of the* ratepayers of the district seem to be of opinion that if they pay their rate by the end of Mnrch it will bo quite time enough. They should bear in mind that it would not be advisable for the Board to defer road making till the end of March. Accounts amounting to £39 5s were passed for payment.

A lost swag- ivS advertised for. Mr Toole was travelling ashorttime ago on the' Great Eastern line from Ipswich to Cambridge. The train was a slow one, and the journey in conseauence very tedious When Bury St. Edmunds was reached the comedian was thoroughly wearied out by tho length or time the train was delayed at the station. Calling aportor, he rakei in a very bland manner for the Station muster, who, all politeness, bustled up to the door of! the carriage in which sat Mr Toolo, looking as solemn as a judge. "What is it sir?" naked the official. "At what time is the funeral to take place?'* inpnired Mr Toolo. '• Funftval,.Bir-rAvhoso funeral ?" asked the JW ..Wpnjd.Gring' station master/ Whose , funeral ! ".continued Mr Toole ;" why.have wo rfpt!boiuo T tfl BuixStiEdmunds." Exit! station-n^fePi^^litiff. When I want my' children to mind, 1 said Popinjay, 'I don't stop, to explain the reason ;to 'em. I just put my fool down, and that's the end of it.' ' Oh, well, responded Blolwen, absent-mindedly, 'that covers the ground, of course ; there is no need of explanation.'