MOA ROAD BOARD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 222, 18 March 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

MOA ROAD BOARD

w MONTHLY MEETING. 1° v w The monthly meeting of the Moa Road i Board was held on Saturday, when there g were present: Messrs. H. Trimble (chair- 0 man), Laurence, Chard, Collingwod, J.j Williams, Bridgeman, Anderson and R. £ T. Williams. I ■ Mr. Corkill was granted leave of ab- j. sance. I n FOREMEN'S REPORTS. 1 1 Foreman J. B. KnofFlock reported that a work was required on the Wortiey, Lin- j | coin and York roads. On the latter road v t about Iy z chains of fencing was needed s i round l a dangerous place. Fifty yards ( \ of metal were required on the Richmond i road, and a set of .pipes to replace an ; ; old -wooden \culLv|ert (on the Kaiimate j i north road. |i Foreman Jones reported that the wet' ( weather had delayed stone contractors ( > considerably. He had been patching and j relaying metal on Durham West road. , • Fifty yards of metal on this road were urgently needed, i Foreman W. Bennett had been repair- . ing on the Kaimata south, Salisbury, Ross, Toi Toi, Motukawa, Ratapiko, and Kupara roads. The Mana and Kaimata , roads required attention. L. Bishop was , making poor progress with his metalling contract on the Motukawa road. —The • ' foreman was instructed to insist on the' contractor (Bishop) supplying more, teams. I, Foreman Stachurski had cleaned water | tables on Egmont south, Lepper south, : and Egmont north roads. He had lower- j 1 ed a set of pipes on the Kaipi road. The! water tables on this road required cleaning. He had spread metal on the I Upland north road and would put metal) on the Windsor road. A length of metal | on the Lepper south road was beyond patching, and he asked to be allowed to! pick it up. Metal for repairs was re-J: quired on the Hursthouse road.—The I foreman was instructed to to a blocked culvert at the Egmorifffiouth and Lepper south roads, and also to pick up metal on Lepper road as suggested. He was also instructed to arrange with some one to break metal on the Hursthouse road. The foreman was given in- j i structions to spread metal on the Eg-i mont south road and to attend to the' Kaipi water tables. The foreman is to] 1 be asked to give an explanation of aj settler's statement re alleged discrimina-' tion in impounding stock. . ENGINEER'S REPORT. I Mr. Stanley Orbell, engineer, reported as follows:—The contractor for the Upland road metalling has metalled a dis- j tanc« of about 84 chains. There was I still 54 chains yet to metal. The stone | was at the crusher site, but the weather' J had put a stop to the work. The coa-l E tractor for the Ratapiko road culvert had made the excavation for the eulvert, but owing to a bad foundation a little extra concrete would be required. The work would be pushed on as soon as the weather permitted. | Mr. Chard comjplained of the manner in which the-metal was being put down. B Mr. Chard complained that tipping the loads out close to the laid metal and merely levelling them off was not spreading, and would never make a road. Mr. Laurence thought if the spreader i would not obey orders it would be necessary to enforce the use of boards. | Mr. Orbell said that if spreaders were J honest and moved all the stone it was. not necessary to use boards, but he sup-' posed he would have to enforce the use of boarii. I MONTHLY STATEMENT. I The monthly statement showed that! i receipts had amounted to £1586 15s lOd (rates £1414 6s 4d, Treasury £170).' Expenditure had amounted to £298 0s [ 1 0d (general) and £216 5s 8d (loan).J , The accounts showed credits as follows: !i General account £2289 7s lOd, loan ac- ' count £ 1098 4s lOd. CLOSING ROAD. Mr. G. T. Murray 'replied re closing part of Lepper road through section 204, ' block 11, Paritutu survey district, that all such "matters had to be arranged with ' the Under-Secretary of Public Works, Wellington. He was personally acquaint- ' ed with the locality and could see no objections to the proposed closing. The Under-Secretary of Public Works replied, re the same matter, that it was receiving attention. GENERAL. Formal resolutions were passed mak-' ing special rates of l-20d in the £ over a special area for providing interest and • sinking fund on a loan of £l5O for erecting culvert and approaches on the Rata- ; piko road, and also a special rate of in the £ over a special area for providing interest and 1 sinking fund on a loan of £2700 for erecting a ferroconcrete bridge over the Manganui river at the Bristol road and forming and metalling approaches thereto. j Mr. R. T. Williams reported that he had arranged with Mr. Wilson to erect fencing at the Manganui bridge for 10s per chain.—Action confirmed. I' Mr. G. T. Murray, Inspector of Quar-' nes, forwarded information re the i efficient storage of explosives at stone ■ quarriet. |j I The Treasury Department notified ; payment to the board's account of £ 170 i on account of formation, metalling, etc.Jj Manganui river bridge approaches. ' 3 Mr. Ritchie waited on the board and j asked if a portion of Mr. Brittain'sj] rates could be transferred from the'] Lepper road to the Hursthouse road, as: < he was carting firewood over the road'i and cutting it up.—No action taken. ! ( The tender of W. H. Julian was ac- f cepted, for the,.supply of boulders at!] Ratapiko at 8s per yard. u Accounts were passed for payment as' ] follows:—General £2OB 0s 7d, loan I] £389 19s 9d. ===== j.t