MASTERTON ROAD BOARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2939, 2 July 1888, Page 2

MASTERTON ROAD BOARD.

The regular monthly %eting of Ilia ' :' MasttTtori Road;Bbard' wna'yhold on ;.■) ; >• : '/ . • Saturday, ; Pr,esent-MeßsrJjW,' ;H,:C''•' ;/■ Beethajn.(chairman); j ' : ~ BrowiiY ■ : :-y ] v^v;.-":;.'.;._' ■ Qm^ '' ; ■■'■.■' '-U ■\! The rainutea ofthe; prerajis meeting ;•\ .^ .wetß.confirmed.^S'.iiv, 1 .-;.;',: *%'::.'.'.' -.' ; Correspondencewas feadtfrbm Cade._••". v . and McKonzie, asking to relieved ' ; from paying Road Board mes until a .. ' roatt was laid; off to; the* property. ■ , From Treasury, Stating ilfat vouchers .'•';■' for Mlohad passedthVatfiii and j would be paid m a'few From '. . Registrar Supreme Court, Ming what amount of rates were - duoj|indor the Board's judgment against the owner of Section 13, Waipoiia CulouklTreasurer, to the. Board's credit of £4001,' FrotJjß ';; Auditor-General covering 'halance^R l ,; sheet duly audited, From as representative of certain ratepayers '"" whose money was paid by the Masterton Board to Mr E, Mr R, Meredith, for a right of Roadsp the Unti shipping place, and asking, tko exact position the ■ special i-RtepSyers occupy: in respect to the MasteVton Board, • and .further stating ■;.™ i, in' his■'.';' presence 1 ,,' : a; J;} y&ymmy. ; > was umde to Messrs Meredith' at^|tK-:' : rate of £lO per acre for a long liehgtl/j'' , of tllo Urili Road upon [ •% promise then given by Mr E. aud Mr R, R. Meredith that the ' veyance of the said road line would'bor !: signed by each of them as sdoui'as it was. prepared and presented, that mote ■.'.■ ; ', recently Mr W, 6. Beard, the Board's ■• V.'-'' solicitor, wrote to the ■\yiiareama Road ; : Board stating that he-had presented •.„/ the conveyance of :the Uriti Road to./ MrE, Meredith for liis signatni'e..and . ondjhat Mr Meredith had refused to 'sign and execute that document, Tbatu sfotement Mr E, Meredith denied, staled his willingness to sign the conveyance whenever presented to him. fl s Would they therefore again cause the" Wf,"\. document to be placed before Mr Mere- A' di.th for liis signature, arid iuform him (the writer) of the result, in order that ho might set at resta feeling of anxiety which exists ainphgsi the ratepayers. " A petition wasi piesented from ratepayers iii Nos, 2 and 3 ward, praying , '' the Board to re-siibdivide those wards, Mr Augus||Petersen waited upon the Board in'respect to getting a road to his property;.\

Mr Powiiall'also attended re road to Mi Donovau'sproperty. Tim following resolutions wero passed :—That 'Messrs Cade and McKehzie be informed that tho Board cannot remit thoir rates, and that the Cluiiruian would again wait upon tho Minister of Public works re road leading to tlieir property. That the Overseer be requested to interview Mr . Elkins as to the proposals madoj| I tlu-onj»li Mr Donovan's solicitor andW, report to next meeting. That the Clerk reply to the Registrar of tho Supreme Court as to the rates due on section 13, Waipoua Block, That the Board at its next meeting define aU ft .. special rating area to bo rated for tbe*«d purpose of repaying loans granted to-Ir the Board for tho Wangaebu roads. * That a general rate of seven-sixteenths i of a penny in the £ be levied on the rateable property within payable in one sum on^ppPHiejtT,' The Chairman informeu the Bud'rd • that lie liad requested tho (Clerkto J write to Mr Mooro (intf enclose a copj^ ; % ' A of tho letter from Mr E. Meredith binding himself to sign tho conveyance;.; referred to. The Board declined to '.] intttrfuie fut tlier. ?•■ The following notice of motion was given by the Chairman for tho next meeting; That a road be laid oil'from the properties of and McKonzie leading to the Wan- ™: gawn. The following tenders were op'oned for the metal hauling as follows : Upper Plain JRoad:—Henry Stevens Is Ud, accepted; Isaac Allen la \\& j Gardiner and Co Is 2d; D, McKenzio Is 2d ; M.R. Burgess Is 3id; Richard Chapman Is 4Ad; T. P. Girdwood 1b /..>,., 8d; Uritt <b Co 2s 3d. &,/ Akura Cross Line; Eichard ChapmauA* at 10,1 (accepted); Isaac Allan, 10id: Y H. Stevens, lOfd; D. McKenzie, Is; Gardiner k Co. Is; Burgess & Co., Is 3d; T. P. dirdwood, Is 4d; H. Westhrook, h 04; G. Keefe k Co., Is8d; Britt&Co., Is 9d. Accounts to tho amount of £125 2s 9d were passed for payment.