TARATAHI-CARTERTON HIGHWAY BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1316, 1 March 1883, Page 3

TARATAHI-CARTERTON HIGHWAY BOARD.

'■ The Taratahi Carterton Highway . Board met on Tuesday afternoon, all the Wardens being present. • The minutes of tho last mooting ■were read and confirmed j tho Bank . lis4d,'and ; amouritspasswl for pay ment amounting . . to £lol3s Bd. ■ . /'. /l he following contracts were let:— • ■; fomationnftrid metalling Waihakeke and Maiinsell's roads, J. Hart, £1 8s ' per chain; formation and metalling '• East Taratahi road, A. Daysh, £l6 4s for the job. . It was resolved that application be - ; made to the Masterton Highway Board • ..'for :the sum voted for works'on the road. !W rhat' Mr Braithwaito spend a sum . -of £3114s in repairing Oliver's Line, 1 Messrs TJdy and others guaranteeing That the Board's solicitor be instructed to prepare conveyances of one acre on White's road from Mr Bayliss. That Mr Welch get repairs done to ■; culvert over Mill Creek, Woodaide, at a cost not exceeding That correspondence from Mr Tone . . ■ re road lines on Uruokakite Block be j i ■ transmitted to Featherston Highway 'Board, to whom it should have originally been sent. j . . ' That Mr Braithwaite should see Mr Cadwallader as to purchase price of a j . small piece of laud near Mr Maunsell's ] • house, to connect tho school road, Wai- , hakeke,.with No. 2 Ward, :: j That tenders should be called L for 20 i chains metalling on Dalefield and , Waterson's road; for widening and | . deepening drain.on Hughes' raid; for | 90 chains metalling on'Perry'B road; , and '46 chains formation on Morris's wad, ( An application from Messrs Erutsen others requesting tho Board to take j .... over the road leading to 1 their proper- ( ties waOeiiised until it was formed i Wd metalled and conveyed to the . Bowd, ' ' ] An application from Mr Hodder for ... . compensation for bush falling at £2los I per acre was postponed until the next j meeting. The clerk informed the , . . . Board that the valuation list forwarded - , if by Mr Spery the Property Tax Com- ( missionerhadbeenreturnedfor .com- , pletion Mit did : iiot include the dis- j " trict now added, formerly forming •] ; .portion, of the .Masterton district. Mr E Welch was requested to see Mir Price t and arrange for the uso of the gravel ] pit on Waterson's" line. It was resolved that'the solicitor to tho Board { ... , r ;be instructed to write to Mr Carter as a to whether he still held to the original f agreement for. carrying the road across • the Hurunuiorangi Flat. Mr Braith- r waite was authorized to extend Hart's r .contract 15 chains. Mr Nix .waited on j the Board and offered half a chain of f his land and the timber to the success ( | ful tenderer for. the purpose of making t .. the Kakatau road of an uniform width c . of 1 chain if the Board would put, up the necessary fencing. Mr Yile was J ~ requested to' report on tho matter at t the next meeting. Mr Booth was authorized to expend £3 on Anderson's ; line. The meeting terminated about ■" -4.30. •" " •