MOA ROAD BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 302, 23 December 1907, Page 2

MOA ROAD BOARD.

the Moa Eoad Board met on Saturday. Present: Messrs I[. Tumble (chairman), A. Corldll, T. Channey A Laurence, G. Marsh, P. Hoby, and C loung. '

Mr W. B. Fussell, clerk to the Waitara West Eoad Board, wrote that that Board was consulting the ratepayers on the upper end of Everett road regarding handing over their rates and the amount to the credit of the road to the Moa Road Board for expenditure, and lie inquired if the Moa Eoad Board, would be willing to expend the money on the Everett road south of the Mangnoroka stream in the Wftitara West district, so that the road might lie kept open any balance to be spent on the Everett road in the " Moa district - Agreed to.

Mr W. Messenger, Secretary to the Inglewood Horticultural Society, stated that the Society was giving a pr j ze at their show for a collection of small birds eggs and asked if the Board could assist by buying e gg 3at so h " nd Door <*• wrote that timber had been carted bv them on the Tbmont road only owing to the impassable nature of the Lnpper road-To be written to for statement of account ™ Lepper road sawmill subsidy. The chairman reported th-.t ho bad nrrnnaed to pay £2O to Mr Viekers for threo-quarters of an aore of land required for .the Lincoln road deviation Action confirmed.

The chairman reported that the Watton Koarf Bonn! had raised £2OO for the Davis road, I,„t had decided now to expand only as much as the Moa Road Board spent, and return the balance to nn Tr / asi,ry - Tl,is Boar( ' ' ln<l o"'v £IOO to spend. At the same time the Moa /ratepayers' £IOO would cost a. \%n rate, .and the Waitara West only

I Members commented unfavorably upI on the Waitara Board's decision, Which they said was a one-sided arrangement. JiV"* oiheT hand - jt was pointed out that the Waitara people would be penalising themselves in the winter, for the shortage of money would leave a gap immetalled, and the road to Inglewood would be impassable for them. It was decided to ask the engineer to report upon the repairing or re-erecting of a bridge on the Motukawa road. Tt was decided to effect repairs to the Klpnra. road, and to repair a culvert on I the Mana road. 1

Tenders were accepted: For carting 200 yds boulders on Kaimata road South, Pwan and Jameson, at 3s lid per yd. Other tenders were held over for a special meeting next Saturday. Tt was decided to pav tlie foremen on riirlstmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day.