MOA ROAD BOARD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 21 January 1907, Page 2

MOA ROAD BOARD

The ordinary meeting c-i the Jinn lo'.td Hoard was Held oil Saturday, i'resenl: .Messrs 11. Trimble (cha'irmani, Cliaiunev. Laurence, .Marsh, lleuwood, Horkill. Iloby. end Turner. The Treasury notified thai ,C<l22 Ss Id was due for interest on .t;27,fiofi (Is sd. inscribed loans; and also notified the gazetting of special oijier making a special rate for the loan of £230 for the. purpose of constructing Bedford road, north of Dudley road, and to the same ell'eet concerning a loan of .UNO for Mangaone road. TOM TOli ROAD. it decided to fence the Too Too road deviation, ilr Chainney dissentiiiL'. ' . STOXIO-BU MAKING. The Board decided not to call ten dors for breaking boulders on the roadside .but to let the work to set Mcrs or others at :1s 3d a yard, sett'ers to have preference. KLXti AXI) UPLAND ROADS. Messrs lleuwood and Jlarsh report-1 ed on the slate of King and Upland I roads.

,\lr Marsh moved Ihat the Upland road be metalled on the hill opposite ..iclleih's, and that tendeis be called. Seconded by .Mr Jlcnwood and carreed .

K The propos|ail of Messrs Uci|w'ood> ls and .Marsli to make a side-cutting on ,* the King road into the Egmont road £ district in order to give Mr C. I/ong lj stall' road access to his farm, at a cost n oi £:i'i for :i side-cutting formation. k wax adopted, tlic Board contribulim: ,: It.-i ami Mr JjoimsliUf £5. Menv a bers staled that tiieiv was little use (1 in trying to give iiim an -outlet by the ', King road to Jn-Icwood. s lnulnklr's; report. ' Messrs Orbell and Mack-ay, mginj- ccrs, reported that, oivinor to scarcity of lal.ouv progress on the Mangamu' , n troad contract \ya slow. Metal was |( being hand-broken, as no ci'ushw was ,_ available. Bedford's road contract I was proceeding slowly, but fair progress was being made with Lopper road metalling Surrey road metal ling was going on slowly. The contractor ior 'tiro Lgmont road metailing bail been instructed to resume work. FOREMAN'S UK PORT. Alfred lloskin, foreman, reported . that the Jigmont road required a week's water tabling and about 70 or 80 yards of nrettil between the ' l.ep ' ' per road and the radius line. Sun- ' ilrv repaiis were needed on various I roads.—To be attended to A cut- 1 vert was required near Mr Morton's, f on l-lgmonl ■ road smith. The con ] tractor for tin: Lopper road metalling ' contract had comp'iaiiied there was no , pit in the locality which would give j 7". per Cent of stone as required. , The foreman will be authorised to employ a man ill each division to assist wiih the work nj> to the date of the March meeting. The expenditure of I lie Toe Toe road grant was left in the hands of the chairman and Mr (Jorkill. The solicitor reported that Messrs Jturwell and ISrneegivdle would take ti hi Sull'olk road (clo-ed) at the.

Tim Depart infill of limits wrott Unit CI(10 was available for rcgrading and nieiulimg the Davis road. The Department of Lands and Survey wrote that £b~> '2s lOd. "thirds,'' had been lodged to the Board's civd , it. i The Treasury notilied Unit £lOl ; 4s ;id, had been ]iaid into the Hoard's , account for formatiou and inetalling j of Lincoln and Surrey roads, and £SO for the Bristol road. The Department of Roads approved proposals for expenditure on -Duiham road. GENERAL. Work required on Hie llui-sthouse road will be attended to by the fore man. In answer to a question, the chairman said the foreman bad power to impound tire bullocks grazing on the j .Norfolk road.