Eketahuna Road Board.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3153, 14 March 1889, Page 2

Eketahuna Road Board.

An ordinary meeting of this Board . was held at tbo office of tlie Buard' on theSHhinst, Present—Messrs A..■-> Anderson (chairman), 0. E. Bockniat) S. Bacon, and M, Neilson, : W' minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed,: 'Correspondence —From ' Auditor, with charge" for audit of accounts. From Bank of Now Zealand, advising lodgment of; balance of Parkvillc. I nan, : £2ooo.':'. From Mr J, King, icthe Makakahi-' bridge, From Property Tax Commissioner, with statement of; values of properties in tlio .Eketahmia Soad - District. From County ' Ooimeii, ■ with memorial re- the : legalisation of roads. From S, Bridge,; nuking: for information concerning, road lines adjoining section U, Block 111, Murigaone, From K. Wiley, asking the Board to proceed with the bridge on tlio Mangaono Valley road, •'.■ From j Colonial Treasurer, with 'statement oUi advances ,on loan account/' From r Property Tax Commissioner, requiring a list of properties on which rates : ■

i havu already heen collected. From .: i W..G. Hayward, requesting to .haS( I portion of Ballance formed, He was' ; . ■ informed that the Board could not • divert any portion of the loan to any■,'■■.■■,■'■'. other purpose than thoso for which it was allocated. It was resolved that £SOO of the Parkvillc loan be placed, at interest for G months. That all:' the safeguards of the" Public Works"•■ Act" are required to protect owners of ■'■' . property, therefore this Board cannot ' agron to allow the Chairman to sign' \,',"-.■ the memorial torwarded by the County v i Council, That'Mr MoMillari be i requested to complete his nietalling ; i contract within seven days. .That, the ' i Ohiof Surveyor bo applied to for: : i information concerning roads adjoin-' iing section 34, Block 111, Mangftpne. - That Mr Berg be directed, to cease' ;: working on the cutting on.ihe central ' Mangaono road till Mr Morris'"return. ; ; That Mr McLachlan be asked td "''■'■' prepare plans for threo bridges on the Mangaone Valley road, the clerk to

■ call 'i special meeting as 60on as Biich 1 l>lnns aro ready. That the clerk order stationery as per estimate from & Blair, That tho County CoundP? bo astad to allow tho Board to recoimnend ranger and poOikeeper for the pound at Eketalmmi. «Also to allow tho County Engineer to pass the metalling conttacta oh the Alfred" ton Eoad. Also lo pay for the ' spreading of metal, on McMillan's , contiact. Mr Morris sentjin applies, tion to the Boaid fiom Wellington to get a |ioi tion of theroads in Wellington Block.Mo. 1, graded. It was decided I to adjourn this business until the ' return of Mr Morris. Inspector Haywaid reported that the stumping cot tract, No I, waa competed, and " No 6 nearly so. That the three, roadformation contracts were piogie&sing ' favorably and recommended paymont to all of them. Mr Roberts attended - requesting the Board that tho culverts ' on tho Parkvilld jural roads plight ,\ bo ptoceeded with. ~lt was resolved that Mr McLachlau' be conferred with " on the subject. The following tenders - - were- received for metalling thirty -->" chains on tho Alftfdton road. MesW' " 0. Petersen and J", Riogard, £7B 'l7s ''] Gil (accepted) ;0. Isaacksen jftymfii Accounts amounting to £406 Is were passed for payment. Tho chair- tc man icportcd that owing to to-not.'"' having tho proper, maps the business sA of the revisipn 'of boundaries was'>»■-' adjourned, The meeting journed, - /"V V