TEMUKA ROAD BOARD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1548, 3 February 1887, Page 4

TEMUKA ROAD BOARD.

Themonthly meeting of the'Temuka Road BdaW was hela'oo Tuesday last,. Present — Messrs f Talboj .(Chairman), 1 Quinn, .Caoavan, Itoeetb and tyaybjiinif. , v 7-7-iftP^V The minutes of the meeting were read and confirmed. i ACCOUNTS. .Accounts to the amount of £77 14s lid were passed for payment. I During the passing of the; accounts the question of paying (he r day men higher wages during the ‘hardest'was discussed, 1 and it was decided that for one mouth the rate of wages'be leper hour; or'Bs per day, the Overseer to : omplby as little labor as possible. ; ,V. V . , , CpRBmGjSUENciE. ! The foliowiDgcorreapqndetice, was read aid considered. ...i j : From Mrs ■ Dunn, stating that when her husband died he he(d; from tljie Board for, shingling which ;be bad not started, and>as she,had notibeen able.f tocarry out the work she wished the,Board: td return heruthe deposit.—The, Board considered the application an exceptional one, and decided’ to grant the request. [From the Crown Lands Commissioner,, enclosing lithograph of the South- Eippgis, tata township. ,u; ,F/om the Deputy- Official Assignee,/# the of \Y.. \^heejband.,, M , jFrom Mr F. W. Stubbs, Clerk to the Ge ra Id jnq,£pu niy bound ( in, reply to a letter sent by ,t(i,e Board re done to' the Temub bridg? crossing of a traction .engine, and that.it w ( a^ decided that. the,,Road ,Bqatd’ should., ’r%, pAir the bridge and .send , the aqpount'to thje owners of the engine, : failing payment legal proceedings to be taken.—The OliairmAn said he understood the parties interested were filling i;t° the cost ' of| the ;drninage n d«ne, but they thought, there, .yrerqi some) otherwise than by , their engine^—The Overseer reported that tppre werij fiyp nlanks which hp believed the engine had damaged and these he had had.-repaired. . , ; OVERSEER'S, REPORT. ; ... JTb«; report .of jthe Qyersesr for. the mbnth; was read as follows To| the Chairman, , ; , gig,—I ihave to Report for the past month asiollows: — Fresh tenders have been invited for Shinglibg near Parke’s.—As the contractor for contract N 0.74 (forming Stewart’s road),-did. not proceed with this work within the time allowed;! re let-itLtQ, thq next tenderer, who he# since completed the wofk*T“F haye-,|let , the re-crowning of tbe road by/Bolleston’s to Mr J. Fifield for£6 10s; jtisnow being pip-, needed with.—l have, had the small bridge near Mr Meyer’a redeeked.—The broken planks in the Temuka bridge have been replaced.—The thistles have been cut on various roads and other small works done.— Inconsequence of the feangitata. 1 fords hot baVing been properly attended to thef'ilast progress payment drawn 'has not yet been paid. ■ No: cheque has-been drawn this month;—Be railway; crossing- ;on Cooper street, Rangitata Township}:, As shewn \ on the lithograph of the Bangitata Township, tha. alternate, : course suggested by the j, Bailway Engineer would not.pernf,, the /lightest service ta settlers living on the east the railway,line. The bridge o'n the Waitohi an,d Pdint road, is. not, jstiropg, enough to, parry traction engines with safety; X, would recopimind that three moregirders be put’in.^* , Since writing the anhexed, 1 report ' on the roads Mr Bajhqrst . applied to have opened; I have seen the owner of rural section No. 6596.'He is willing to sell a|road to the Board atjthe rate of- £ls per acre,'the Board tobear halt cost of fencing. The road would run where shewn on tracing.—l have; etc., , F. Abohbb. : ; NEW ROAD. A long report, by the Overseer ■ oh the roads applied for 'by-Mr Hayburst to provide access to his new mill was also read. Re said the road - from Palmer’s road 1 towards the niill site, between sections Nos. 20377 and 2294, ran along the riverbed; and during flood would ’be covered with water. ,Of the road «bout ; 47 chains would be of use to Mr Hay hurst, andhe estimated the cost at £36 10s. It would bp a difficult road to keep io repair. The road leading from the KakahhToad 1 would require the present cutting to be repaired, and a ford to be made in the creek at the, bottom of ; the terfice.* The ford would be difficult to keep in order. Ho estimated (he first cost at £lO. The re-i pprt then referred to the road alluded to in the other report, and which - was approved of by the Board. The Overseer thought it would answer the purpose of the two roads applied for; there': was always a good ford, and it would be easy to maintain. ■ - - ■ , The new road suggested.by' the Overseer to take the place of those applied for \by Mr Hayhurst runs from the Kakahu road along the north side of Mr W. Young’s section No. 6595, where it joins Mr Rees Thomas’ property, thence, across the riverbed. The Overseer reported that he understood the ford was generally J good. 1 u ' ; * A long discussion ensued, at the end of which it was. proposed by Mr . Quinn, seconded by Mr G. Bissett, and carried—; t “ That in the matter of the; roads applied to be opened by-Mr Hayhurst, the recommendation of the Overseer to purchase a new line altogether; instead be approved'of, and the offer of Mr Young, toi sell the land required at £l6 per acre be accepted, the cost of fencing to be equally, divided between the Board, and’l Mr Young; also that the Qfaaiman be authorised to take the necessary steps for acquiring the proposed new road at once.” TENDERS. The Overseer reported that no tenders had been received for shingling Parke’s road, Milford. QORSB ON THE ROAD. . Mr Bissett said there was some talk of the gorse being allowed to grow bn certain roads, instancing a road near Badham’s, where it was half across the road. ■ The Overseer said he had been unable to find out who the owner of the adjoining land was. He had received a-letter, from Messrs Perry and Perry re the rates, but he could not find out from .it the owner’s name. He had given Mr W. , Fitzgerald, th«s former; owner, notice to clear the gorse 12 months ago, but he had replied that he had no interest in the section. The subject then dropped. UNPAID RATES. The subject of unpaid rates due to the Orari River Board cropped up, and the Clerk was instructed to get them in as soon as possible. The meeting then terminated.