MOA ROAD BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 217, 19 October 1909, Page 3

MOA ROAD BOARD.

The regular meeting of the above Board was held on Saturday last, when there were present: Messrs Trimble (chairman), Capper, Corkill, Jones, Lawrence, Mundt, Stead, Williams and Voung: The chairman referred to a claim from Mr. A. E. Surrey, claiming Is V/A and Is 3d respectively per hour for workmen assisting their foreman.— Some discussion followed, when it was ■diown that there was a difference of eleven hours in the times charged l>v .Mr. Surrey as worked, and that re-

ported by the foreman.—Resolved, That Mr. Surrey's claim be not reccnised METAL CONTRACT. "

Mr. Turner wailed on the Hoard relative to the tenders for metal called by the Board, as his tender had been I rejected in favor of a higher tender as. it was said, the other metal was better, and so made the higher price really the most economical. This contention, he said, was contrary to truth, as thev could see by examining the two melal's on Junction road.

Mr. Capper said that Neilson ».,. plained there was too much stripping at rnrner's pit, as well as the difference in the quality of the metal. Another reason was that Turner had not the necessary teams to do the work, and was dependent on other carters, who went at that job when they had nothing bett'°r ■to '« and so delayed the work The chairman said that the last contract Turner had there was a very «reat delay, with considerable damage to" the

Air. Turner said that a very lar«e portion of the delay was the fault oi he Board's foreman. He did not like the treatment he had received, as he mm that someone had wilfully mis-;., presented the position to the BoSS.I Ao action taken. ~ v Tn S m ROy ALTIES. PI ?T th Sas l' and Door Co. forwarded a statement of royalty pavdie to tn St £ ece !" ber ' 1M8 ' the amount due to the Board was over-paid bv £5 Ut I04««mi r °^ that dnte '0 « 1/1 ir w h<ld bCen oarted ' »«<* at 1/sd per foot represented £.O 10s lid leaving 18s now due to the Board Mr. Mundt said that the statement evidently did not include the tooer carted over the Egniont road, as „s absurd to suppose .that the mill had been working eight months tor that ZT' °l 0 , UtpU . t - , H »«»'d tit the «mpany had not been paving for Z timber carted over the EgmSnt road fuih- ason°e gllt , tobe !° oke<l into ««■ to li a ?. one ,r 0i >< i was just as important to the Board as the other. , A deputation will wait on the chairman of the company „„ the matter Air. Surrey forwarded a cheque for cartage royalty, and the clerk was i structed to write and ask Air. Surrey to forward a statement showin" U" amount of timber carted between giv"e„

THE ENGINEERS' REPORT Messrs Orbell and Mackay's report od he Wortley road, and recommend the lonn money to he spent as followsroad to end of present metal, a distance of abont ten ehains, amlbe formed Tf It . from » ni ' of »'f»l to Davis ro"d ifdiiemjr the present grades from 1 i- in " 11 J"- ««»«* of I™ ch«lnl 0 ?«ln„ ♦ , rormtlon . S ».T. .€140; the hJlnnce to he spent in continuing th» present metal. ° "'"

jhe recommendation was adopted Mr. Young was informed that'tir Mana road bridge had cost C?O3 -Mr Orbell will supply details at next met mg, the cost being well above the c,"llmate. >u

Some discussion tool; place as to the great excess of cost over estimates V ,nl" r « "r? d n , S TO " n < nt Ma ™ road and the Roard was asked to help Vc speeial rating districts in this ,„«? pected expense. A motion was *„< ojl bv Messrs Corkill and the bridge account be abolished and a suspense account be substituted to be a sort of emergency account available fo'r any part of the district „J h M reSo "jf ion Wfls lnst - "" ""airman and Messrs Capper. Stead. Williams „„d ioung opposing, and Messrs Corkill Jones Lawrence and Mundt voti,,™ for"

Mr. Corkill then reported tlnU Mi. ratepayers on Richmond rnn ,| „.,„,' , f have tne «-rndcr tried on their mad Hid «in,e of (bose at Tarata al-o want do have ,t tried, and he understood that West grader could Vol, tamed for the purpose '' Tae clerk was instructed to write to the fl a.tara West Hoard and ennui e -, to whether tlie grader w-asol'ta!;; not. and ,f ,t, is when and on what terms.-Abridged from Record.