WAITARA WEST ROAD BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 119, 13 June 1901, Page 3

WAITARA WEST ROAD BOARD.

(fhom our own correspondent). At the monthly mee' ing of th < above Boird, held at Lepperton on tin sth inst, the memba-s present were Messrs. T. Western (chairman), Brown, Old, and Turnbull.

Correspondence wss read from the Department of R ad--, Wellington, reques'iog th'.t any com sponde ice re roads or bridg- s be in future forwarded ti th? engicee" in clurge ; from Treasury, stating that no fresh opplicition was required for tho loan of £ 100 on the Richmond toid; from Mm. S. Bishop and H. B. Curtis compl»iniog of the state of the Everest road and a broksn cuke t nn s»me, and of tho useless way in which ths had been 3pent last year; from AutfitOffica returning bdarce-sheefc for the year onded March 31<=t, 1901 ; from Colo nia.l S crctary s'sting that the names of members cf Bo rd Had been gazetted.

The cl rk was instructed to inform Mm. B'shop I hat tbe repairs on road would be seen to as soon as weather permits.

Mr. S. Wright waited on the Board, and complaited that water was dammed on his land on account of a culvert which had been put in.—Messrs. O'd and Turnbull wete requested to report on it at uoxt meeting. The new valuation was stated to show an increase of about £46,700.

The clerk wns directed to sue for all outstanding lates, which amount to £l4.

[ Refol .e ', that a rate of iu the £ be struck at the next meeting of the Bisrd, this br : nging in £365, as against £267 on the old valuation. The Enginfer (Mr. Orboll) stated that the sp eiders' wages on the Te Ari road coVract, as well as engineer's chnrges, wnuld probably hava to ba prid by the Hoard, and not out of the Government grant. Accounts amounting to 512Q • ere prs<ed f r payment, and the Bo?rd adjou'ned.