SCENIC RESERVES BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1918, Page 3

SCENIC RESERVES BOARD.

QUARTERLYMEETING. The usual quarterly meeting was held at the Lands Office on Monday, there being present Messrs G. H. Bullard (commissioner) in the chair, S. Percy Smith and R. W. Davies. Mr. Collis wrote apologising for unavoidable absence. Correspondence was read from the Un-der-Secretary for Lands, advising that the board's suggestion in regard to inserting a special clause in all scenic reserve licenses with respect to the compulsory clearing of noxious weeds on the land, had been adopted, and would be embodied in the new forms about to be printed. Ratapihipihi.—lt was decided that the matter of the erection of further fencing on the eastern boundary would be considered at the next quarterly meeting. Mv. Davies reported that the cutting of further tracks through the reserve was now completed, and that the grass mowing on the open parts of the reserve, recently planted with wattlo. trees, was well in hand.

Meeting of the Waters Reserve.—The honorary, caretaker (Mr. Henry King) reported that certain fencing"buried by silt on the reserve had been restored, payment for which * was authorised by the board, Mr. Smith pointed out that some local body was removing metal from the bed of the stream, the property of the board, and the chairman was authorised to investigate, with a view to collecting a royalty on same. , r Pu c ket j, Pa Reserve.—On the motion of Mr. Smith, it was decided to fpnee in and plant, in suitable native,trees, about a quartet of an acre of ttie reserve, in a suitable position, tire detailed arrangements being left in the chairman's hands, in conjunction with the mover. In view tif the annual meeting of the board ITI April next falling on St. George's Day, when the public offices would be closed, it was resolved to hold a special meeting for the purpose a week earlier, viz., on April 16. Accounts.---On the motion of the chairman, the following accounts were passed for payment: Cement Pipe Company (concrete posts) £2 15s; Henry King (fencing labor), £1 lOs. 6