PAHIATUA ROAD BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2012, 10 June 1885, Page 2

PAHIATUA ROAD BOARD.

.... [from our own correspondent.] The Pahiatua Road Board met on Saturday evening the 6th June. All the nwb.erji were present. It was unanimously resolved that Mr Payie ter. Chairman for the .ensuing year. ' The minutes of the meeting, also the action of the Works Committee in reletting 60 chains of Maungaramaramaroad North, were confirmed, ' !

A copy of the balance sheet was laid on the table, showing receipts up to the 31st March last, to liavo been £1651 7s 4d

arid the expenditure £4317 a Bd, leaving a credit Balance of £111919s Bd. • Correspondence, outwards.-i-To Mr Florence're Mr Giles, and No 4 contract Tiraumearoad ; To Mr Bock, rehia application to OJiief Surveyor asking for detail plans of Toriteia Puketoi Road. .Correspondence inwards.—From ,the •CominjHsioiier of Crown Lantfe' re "'the applications for deferred thirds; From Colonial Secretary stilting that new members were gazetted; also from Chief Surveyor with plan as suggested. ' RESOLVED. That' in accordance • with Notice given, the Board now strike a general ri'te of |d in the £, on all ratable property in the. district for the year, commencing on the Ist of July 1885, to,the 30th of June 1886, and to bo made payable on the lst .Jof August, 1885. The rate book to be open for inspection till the 6th of July. That tlie clerk write to the Ei|st County Council asking if the road laid off by Mr King through the Government reserve, Block VII, Mangahao Survey District, has been proclaimed a public road; if not, requesting them to proclaim it'at once. ■lt wasresolved that the clerk write for the remaining plan of the Toritea Puketoi road from Mr Oreville's deviation to the main road. The overseer's report was read and approved, and he'wa? instructed to do the necessary work; arid also to take measurements of creeks etc. on the Maungaramarama road, so that tenders may be called for bridges at as early a date as possible. •' .The following acounta were passed for payment;-

£ s; D. Haggen, printing, eto. ... 3 17 6 Campbell, timber culverts ... 3 17 6 Monteith Bros,, nails 1 7 4 Government storekeeper, N.Z, •' Acts ..0 4 C MoMillan, overseer '... ... 12 0 0 W, Hall, wages ... 4 311 J, Gundry, was;es 215 1 J. Singleton, wages 0 11 ,3 Vaughan Bros;, cutting track 2 0 0 Monson, cutting track... ... 6 0 0 Total ; £3517 1