CASTLEPOINT' ROAD BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1579, 10 January 1884, Page 2

CASTLEPOINT' ROAD BOARD.

The; ordinary meeting of the Board waa held, on Saturday last.' PresentMessrs Mackay (Chairman), Langdon, Telfprcland Belliss. .'. The minutes of the previous meeting we're read and confirmed, and the •Treasurer reported a balance in bank : of£lß2,?s'3d. '■•• The Overseer's report was read and considered, The following, correspondence was read:—From Biillcr and Gully ro transfer of Lot 5, Tinui. Prom Clerk i of County Council re metalling and I payment of timber. From Chief Surveyor re cost of map, From County | Clerk with plans and specifications of work to be applied for under the ;Roadsand Bridges Construction Act. From Commissioner of Crown Lands with a return of lands sold in 1883. From, the Masterton Road Board appointing meeting of delegates to adjust rates. From .ifr.Alfred Burling, applying for. a road to'be laid.off to his land at Mangapakeha. ' .' j' .'Eesolved,—That a map of the' East County be obtained from, the chief surveyor.

That the Government beasked if they, are prepaid ; to ' expend any of the • money : accruing' fronj the, sale of orown latids in assisting'tp'make roads to tlie sections lately sold. :: ■:; t } That Mr Bui-ling's application jfrrfr

ferred'to the Survey Department, requesting that the road he laid off. That it would not he convenient for members to meet the Masterton Board on the 11th, but this Board suggest that next meeting be held at Tinui, • elate to be fixed by the Mastorton members. That the necessaiy material for fencing in the Board's section of land •be ordered. That the consideration of applications under Roads and Bridges Construction act be postponed until a full meeting is present. The clerk was directed to obtain ' Messrs Handyside and Burliug's consent to open a dray road from Manga to Prmgaroa. The overseer was instructed to keep the Black Swamp road passable for wheat traffic, and to repair the road from Manawa to Stillborn's hill, jmd. ■ to see wardens on road from toPungaroa. \^| The following accounts were passed for payment:—Wages, Mungapakeha road £2819s 6d; Tinui Eketahuna road £32; Castlepoint road £l9 lis 6dj Waimata£l3 3s6dj Stewart & ,Co,, timber £8 19s j B. Donald, timber £2O Is; Buller and Gully, conveyance fees, £2 16s 6d; H. .McGucken, balance of contracts, £2l. The next meeting was fixed for Saturday, 2nd February.