MOUNT PEEL ROAD BOARD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1843, 22 January 1889, Page 1

MOUNT PEEL ROAD BOARD.

A meeting of the Board was held in the Road Board office, Peel Forest, on Friday, the 18fch irisl. The members present were the Hon. J. B- A. Acland (chairman), Messrs O. G. Tripp, R. Mackay, and K, Thew. MINUTES. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. CORRESPONDENCE. The following correspondence was read and dealt with From the Minister of Public Works, stating that the Public Works Department having been abolished arrangements have been made for road undertakings hitherto performed by that Department to be performed by the Crown Lands Department in future, and that all communications relating to roads or other local undertakings be addressed to the Hon, the Minister of Lands accordingly. From the Timaru Hospital, furnishing names of additional patients treated in the Hospital during the month of December. • From Mr H. McMaater asking permission to erect a gate across the road leading up the Orari Gorge. Permission wss granted on the usual conditions. From the Property Tax Office, Wellington informing the Board that a voucher had been forwarded to the Treasury for the payment of rates due on Crown lands. From Mr J. Talbot, giving his views upon matters connected with tho Timaru Harbor Board. PUBLIC WORKS ACT, The several clauses of the Public Works Act Amendment proposed to be brought before Parliament next session was discussed, when the following suggestions were proposed “That section 10 seems very arbitrary, especially in cases where lands abut upon a river, as in many cases in the South Island, gorse has been washed down the rivers and has rooted on spits and islands, spreading seeds far and wide; in such oases the enforcing of this clause would be the ruin of many of many owners, unless the Gouernraent first takes the question up and destroy off all the various plants and then call on owners to keep the land clear.” “That County Councils and Road Boards should have power to expend their funds in buying or leasing land for the purpose of experimenting with water for irrigating the same, such money to be first voted by the ratepayers, the voting to be the same as for water districts.*’ instruction. The overseer was directed to attend to the following things To give notice to MrS. Rae to remove a fallen gum tree from the Scotsburn and Peel Forest road adjoining his land, and to grub up the gorse growing on the same road ; to give notice to Mr E. Evans to grub gorse from the road in the Rangitata riverbed adjoining his land ; to have the stones arid tussocks picked off the road from Tripp’s cutting and Pithie’s corner and across the Orari riverbed ; to repair the cutting near Ritchie's house and lower the ford to take the flood water from Mr Dennistoun’s paddock. accounts. Accounts to the amount of £SO 10s 3d were passed for payment, atcer which the Board adjourned.