MASTERTON HIGHWAY BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1307, 19 February 1883, Page 2

MASTERTON HIGHWAY BOARD.

The regular monthly meeting of the above Board was held in the County '.■ Chambers on Saturday last; Proaant— ; Messrs Buchanan (Chairman), Meredith, .' Clwmbsrlain, and Dagg. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed', :. The bftlanoe in the bank was reported ■' as£Bs3 14s Id. , . ■ The. following inward correspondence was read :-From the of Public Works, notifying that t K e »aum' applied for iiuder the fioads Construction Act had been ject to the terms of the Aol.->ruLtho Carterton Highway Board, appj|&pf account submitted to them of work in No. 5 Ward of the duu-iufifT' From County Engineer, relative to certain work done to the Waingawa Bridge; and aupposod to be chargeable to this. Board, Referred back to West County Council for farther detail.-From Mr Cameron, enclosing account for work done on the Pahaua Eoad, and requesting payment of swne. !' J j V The Clerk was authorised to'gend ; .'- cheque for.the amount. ■., The month's accounts were examined and passed for payment, ~....-. The Engineer's report was (hen read, BtiGINBEB'S REPORT.

The report will appear in our next issue. It was decided thai'the. metalling, on •• *■ Te Ore Ore and Uppdr Plain .Roads, be. deferred for a month. The. Clerk was instructed to write to the County Couno'il and suggest that they try the experiment, of painting the main braces' of 'the* Waipoiu and Waiohine Bridges with the; patent luminous paint, to act as a guide to travellers on dark nights, . .;;•. It was -decided, ilm thj Kopiiaranga < j beadjusted.b'utthepaitiiing be'deferred' 5 - until next season, The Clerk was iiialruo;ed to write to

Mr Hare rflquestinq him to replace the culvert on Kangitnmau Road destroyed by the firee from his property,' It was decided to let the matter of the Manata Road drop. Messrs Kay and Laughlan's application re their road could not be entertained by the Board. ' The matter of dealing with the loena ..,.. granted by the Government under the ;:., ; itoadß and Bridges Construction Act was •■.:;..; wen fully dealt with, with a view of >■• • 1 determining what slops it was necessary ; Jo take with reference to polling &c. .'.., '.£ ;_ The tenders for the Pirau Swftmpsec- .•:,: -tion of the Upper Opaki'Boiid wore ..;£: opened, and that of Mr Slatlery accepted, ...V at 19s lid per chain. ';£• Mr Cave waited on the Board, asking •fVtbat a right of road be located into his '.,:{property. ; ; locate the line of road required as soon ns be can spare the tiocussary time. Ee.Mr Cattle's application for a road to his property, the Clerk was instructed to write and poinfout tint large'sums of , ; money, have to bo privately contributed ' towards the forming of the lower seotious of the Matahiwi road, and request that he ' contribute halftho amount of the Engineer'* estimated cost of the required work. The following resolutions wore thou >. passed.— That the work required by MrDagg be reported on by the Engineer at the next meeting. •. . . ; ■ ■.}. ■: That the works on Waiuuioru -Road be let by publidender. f -\}^' That the necessary repairs he;effeoted to the Upper Fernridge Road, j'/ That the County Council be Mmmunicated with and requested.: that they will apply a portion of (ha money granted ' ' under the, Roads and Bridges Construction Act to metalling a portion of the Tauern I ; roadbetweenOlahuaoftillandKahumingi Bridge as early as possible. That a special meeting be held at 7 p.m, .• on Saturday,"24th inst., to consider the --' Mfc^ 1 ' 008 necessary to be pushed for- ' jjKdbefore.lh'e-winter. : Board defines the following as the area tojtie specially rated under the ,' : ... : . 'Roads and .Bridjjos Construction Act for ; -. : the purpose of repaying a loan for conatruction the Matahiwi Road, aa defined .on application to the Minister of Public / Works'oh'29th December, 1882, schedules I .. of loctiorjß comprising :—Akura Native '"; Reserve, less the area occupied by Messrs ' , ; -fl. CMmberlain, Hoffiens, and Bannister; ' '<" ..aeotlo'ns 23, Hoffiens, 52J acres; (section ; "• "; occupied by Messrs Holmes, 422 acres; ';• section 7,388 acres; section 54,184 acres; ■'-. ] 7, 420 acres; section 1,217 acres; \ ,jr" "Duncan, 680 acrea; section 70, A. T. e ;S> Bothamley, 1000 acres; section 09, Cattle t ■'' and Diamond, 600 acres; Government r land, west of section 70, 1000 acres, Total area, 98641 acres. That the property, comprising 1411 l acres, at present owned by Dr Hosking, in " '•.: the Te Ore Ore district, and known as Weraili, be the area specially rated ; for tho purpose of repaying a loan of £'229 3s ;lj fld, for which npplicatiou was made under % the Roads and Bridges Construction Act to the Minister of Public Works on 29th December, 1882. . . The Board then adjourned. : f

The following story is told by the [ Taieri Advocate:—Not a hundred miles from Caversham there resides a policeman who, so the story ..goes, is remarkable for his officiousness and sharpness towardspublicaus. OneSundayrecently ] he saw a little girl enter a hotel and ti ■come out with a billy of what she said b was beer. (The limb of the law had been t] on the lookout all the morning, and felt that his patientshad been wellrewarded, and congratulated himself upon having a splendid case. Upon taking the lid off the billy, though, he was somewhat Z suprised to find nothing but pure water where he anticipated finding beer. The man in blue had been keeping an eye i on the hotel, and the wily publican had ' been keeping two eyes on the peeler; so, feeling sure that the litte girl would q be accosted, he 'had, unknown to her, filled her can with water instead of * beer, and then with some friends went out to enjoy the joke. The policeman was the only man who couldn't see •where the laugh come in. 1;