TARATAHI CARTERTON HIGHWAY BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1226, 8 November 1882, Page 2

TARATAHI CARTERTON HIGHWAY BOARD.

Tp adjourned monthly .tiieeting of the Board tftqk place ye»tera>y. Present) Messrs Booth (Chairman), Brftithwajtß, Boys, Welch, ParW, and. Vile, Tljd minutes of the,' preyioua ; ,meetiQg were read and confirmed; and 'the. bank balance reported at 1247,0 a 2d, Accoiints were passed for payment amounting to;£66 0j 2dr The following tenders were accepted : I Tile's Road-H. Wilda, £2 12a per ! chain; footpath—M. Wilda, JBI 13s 6d per chain. v ! : ) Letters were read from W. Cundy, re felling line nf road ; from G. Arnold, re opening road in No, 6 Ward; from Beardand Gray, re law costs, ■'•' It was resolved-ThaUhe Warden of No. 5 Ward he authorised to have Bonje bushfalljngdoneon Joseph'slipe.—That toe Warden of No 1 ! V Ward'h'aVe yfyifi rity to dispojeiofitne. timber on'Vjle'a .Tp^dJ-J-Tbat;, tenders be invited for V filling in gravel, pit in No. 4 Ward, ' between Messrs Cadwalladef'raTrtl Straw, bridge's properties.—That all[out6tandinf( rates be'sued foV fo f thwithi tenders be called for.bush-fallinffnandijclearing halfarniloof ftoMaurpad. . Ai'letter .wasYeai}' frolh' tjie'lWajraraps, East County "ft afealgaWaKiil or alteration alio one frorri the. Bdafd re same subject, and ejojosjng copy of resolutions.

' The Chairman, referring to the copy of resojqtigns aB to (Jounty amalgamation or alipti<ra qf.bpqnbMes', cald the petition to in the thirl.resblqtioq included part of No; 4 and. the whole of No. § Wapds fit the Mastertqij Highway Board, aqd thoss Wards had been unwilling to separat* and come into this district until a turn of £7OO due was assured to them by the Maßlertim Highway' Board; (and this money now having been assured that difficulty was cot over, As regarded the p(her matters, if the.ineeting.on Saturday shewed there a yms' jin 'unfriendly feeling against amalgamation/it would not be pieißed. He thought the third reiqlutioa

should bo om, as ihe» pntries'm'j those Wards ,iisedyt]te| (#rte|loX /oads , jnninty, .without contributing "to' ttieir t , f el to accept ttie " proposed boundaries. He would point out the<boundnrie,3.of : a IJorth and South which, b.tiioujjhi. tl|ey woiiid, ...agree with him, was a thoroughly natural '''division.'' It ■ff.is i; bVepoit'ef:)tis''tliW' Hie, MastertoJ flighwiSy District should run! so far SolithJ and 1 the'pinion indicated" ' «*ould]c6nie mat 'that'district:''' If atrial. ; . gaination ,tpok place, there would baria : ! nheratlon in 'theßoard districts, as tliere ,w"omibe but one boiun- >'" o '<;Oteruiiuoui Hoiiiaiii,-' mirth nttd south' . ma'de, liaVin» regard • to'the 1 Extensive panel's : gfv6n'l)y Hie new Ads, and One bounty would be to 6 big,' By the diyisiou .indicated, the south ! 46 miles,,., Mr-Mackay, die chairman of t %: v.-p{ Jhe pasilppoint,Highway 13j>ard, agreed with him th.it the bound,,ry indicated was & natural one, i{c thought so far as this Featheistou districts,ware con--111 .''kerned'there uas-itotothut<way>obt of the . difficulty than a JNo'lh and South County '""''jillb't'o h»vo fejlimj from '*! ' •'ilie.Board' that agreeable persuade hii neighbor to attend on Satpahs th^t'motion; and ho i'thought;: the agitation for amalgamation Jjiwwfluld then;Botm tlioQilt, |t was resolvpi]'on the motion of Mr '■-•'•'Bbys 1 , seconded by Mr Welch, that this , p Board isnot ip favor of amalgamation of H[ the''countiesof'Wii'uwapftEnsl-and-West, ~, ; .but would strongly urue tho adoption of "'""io much of the ihird resolution adopted .; by the. Mastertou Highway Boaid at its meeting held on the 14th ult, «s relates ;','. |to the.bouudarieß io be agreed upon for a r'•;. .Wairarapa Nonh and South County. - •■■'.'■} ilhe 3i dissolution referred .lo abnvo is .:■■•: as follows:—"That in the event of either • -of Hie'two foregoing resolutions not being parried into effect, this Board agrees io a •"■ 'boundary, jine which W»uU] place the ';:'.''.■;«(liole"'of Kfi. |Ward in the south county, .'''' together with 'the addition of the balance of Mrv-Buchanstn s. property, and portion, of that of Messrs. Beetliaiu, its defined by petition recently: forwarded to tho Go-i.:i-.ver'nor by this Board." • -..- ;.•; The meeting then terminated at about 5,80 p.m. '•