FEATHERSTON ROAD BOAED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2693, 6 September 1887, Page 2

FEATHERSTON ROAD BOAED.

The Board mot on Saturday at Foatherston, Mr A. Matthews in the ohair. \ . .

Tho minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, and the Treasurer's report was read showing a- credit to the general account of £BBS. 8s 6d, and that-the imprest aoopunfc was cloßfld. The receipts for general rates during the .month were.' £406 18s 9d, and 139 : '17b ~6d wa« receivedfrom Messrs Joseph k Phillips half cost of Mason's contract on ; Ward's line Morrison's-Bush. It was also shewn that the total /cflst of recent repairs to the .Waibenga bridge was'£B7..Mhe credit to eaol\ Ward .was as follows:—No 1, £174 Os lid )■ No.UlOslssodjNo,B,£l74lOs; No.4,£BU9s;.N6.M4Bißslod;: No. 6, 11a 8d;: No. 7, JBBsolßs 4d; No. 8, £B7 17s 8d;, including balance unexpended £46 18s. Bd, Cross' Creek, £BS of which has- been reserved for fencing. Saturday's disbursement's about L 257 has to be placed against these amounts. Tenders were received for wort on the Tuhitarata road (50 chains) and that of T, Greenyard 16s per chain formation was accepted. For

ii urn biwiii mtmmu^Jjt^MiiiiidumtllJi 50 chains, Turanganui (metalling) that of A, Dick at £1 pe/:'chiiiri was accepted. For the KaMut'aif'bridge across the Ruamahunga river, four ninety feet spans, the lowest-tender, Joseph Dawson, at £1958 mte accepted, Mace and Bassets £2667. Weymouth, Robert Ashburton £2892 10s lid, A. O'Brien, Wellington, £2192, W. Benton £220215s Cd, Murdock and McKenzie, Kurupuni,£222?. '.Wm.:. Alexander, Masterton, L 2184 ako tendered.'-' The- engineer's' amended/estimate was £2160. ■ Mr Tweeddale: was : appointed .clerk of works at 10s per;: diem. Some complaints, re gorae, on roads were seard ahd'Mr.Wrattan, Apnised matter of forming f suitably to his' place would be a public meeting. Among.|pi' correspondence was-a letter fronfMrßiddiford promising, to meet the Board re the Auhea road, after the elections, which the Board:agreed to do. In roferonco to an application from Dr Wallace and Mr J. Viles it was agreed to withdraw tlidrangov from the road between the town, boundary of Featherstonand-'the Rimutaka for the present. A special rate of 8-16ths of a penny in'the ..&: was levied in the Kaliautera district, _