CASTLEPOINT ROAD BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1381, 17 May 1883, Page 3

CASTLEPOINT ROAD BOARD.

Th'e ; fii-fit meeting of the' new Board l waß hflld at i th6 ! PiibliC''HttllJ Tinnijoii Saturday last. : Present Mmrs' Langdon, Mapjcay, . Williams, arid' Bellis, Mr'Madkay ;\Yaa unanimously " 'j, { . ; The muiutea of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, and the Treasurer reported a balaiic'd i in / llje banlc of ; L453;13a 10dl" fi; ■ A [ ' The' Gounty Cquncil had > formally ~tyken over the charge of the Main roads, 1 but desired that tho Board would Continue : jto fep theti) 'jnl repdiv until },rich tinio as they oouid'roalte arrangements' for. doing ao, and that the; County would hear the cost of maintenance in future. , The wages . bills wei'e read and passed for payment, and. the Clerk of, .Works report was read and considered, ;

■; Correspondence rikd Froni' .Mr Sheath, re bad state of. MatikuiiaPakowai road, . .. ~ '

From Mr Hawkins, re rates on' Bow lands. ' ' 1 ' ; ■

Front Mr Dillon, asking for a right of way from the Mataiku'na I Station to junction of Pakowai with Mataikupn;' .Prom Mason Foreman,, applj'iiig, for an allowance ior the difficulty, in getting stone for $ <Mlen6tnt;i f'WM Mf HlPgo.< !' e the leaky state o|"fhe pdpiaris )vbftre',,,7'' Resolved—ThatMr JlcHutcheop be jq'tjip' officp of jclcrk, fiijd c(illectqr, i\i 'mkf of |2Q per ai^pin. T]|at !|n Qyeiw.i' of "works be ap•jioinipd ftt ft salary of J&130 per annum.' That a separate acoount of expenditure on main lines }?q ken* {~ om t i,j s date, • ; . . That the words " Public jßoads" must be legibly painted q$ alj g(\tesj on road lines, •• " ! i ' t|e Scjajjd the necessary fcond in accord-, ajicflwitjy iclauae Sj' $ Road Boards Act, notice bg pbpsbed to the effect ijiat the Board at its heict meeting intond to make a general rate of one 1 half-penny, in. the £ on thiß rateable value of all rateable property for one yeiar ' from "Ist April 188$ & ! c;, ' aiicj that the rate book be. prepay acpprjl-. ' ,M ' ■ T|jat the' By-laws of the board fie rovisedat mepting. j £ The following accounts were passed for payment:—Payton ifc Co., L 4 Is'fld C. White'l6; 12s-; ;R.< McCullagh, :i/2 ss; Wlsi Nathan^ Co., Lll.iosi9if.;Mm®i«SQn,Lll3s 9d j R Hughes; L 417s 1 , The appliea. tiona of IVlr Dillaii, and Foreman, and Mason wore not allowed, .:> 1 : • ! •Tlie next meeting of .the Board whs fixed for jltjij line., j