PIRONGIA HIGHWAY DISTRICT. (From our own Correspondent). August 5th.

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 503, 10 August 1875, Page 2

PIRONGIA HIGHWAY DISTRICT. (From our own Correspondent). August sth.

The annual meeting of ratepayers wus held in the Blockhouse, llar.ipipi, on thfc 31st July Mr. A. S.'Sherret, having been elected chairman, read the advertisement conrer^ng the meeting, and thJ minutes of last anrnril meeting, which after somd discussion wereconfirmei. The chairman of the late Board rl?ad' the sfcatfc merit of accounts which was as follows : — Receipts— To rates oollected, SS^ 13a 6 1 ; amount received from Colonial Government — Road Board grants, 93H2s ; amount received from Provincial G-oVijrnment— from ordinary Appropriations, 37^ lOi ; Missccllanrous — sundries, 51 ; total, 2271 153 6J. Expenditure .—Paid for forming roads, ldM 9s ; bin <ges and culverts, 261 11s 41° other works, 241 IG*. 81 ; salaries and rent, 2*11 ; legal expenses, printing and advertising, 21 XL-, miscellaneous — sundries, 121 10s Id; total, 28M Is Id. Amount of rates payable fjr fie year, 103/ 6s 2d ; amount actually received to date, SSI 13s 6.1; tosil amount of arrears of rates for past yea>s. 5312 a 7d j rate per £ (upon v«lue to sail or let, as the ca^e may be) of list rate levied, one penny in £ on value to sell. The balan c sheet having been passed Mr Me Minn proposed "Mi it a rate of one penny iv tho pound on the value to sell be struck, and that the rateable property iv the district be valued by »he Trustees." Seconded by Mr Edwards. Mr llosborough proposed that the rate be £d in the pound. «ecomlevl by Mr Rollo. Oa the amend-, incut being pnt to tbe meeting 13 votes were recorded, for it. For the original motion there were 15 vote 3, and one penny in the p mnd was declared to bet'.io rate for tl/e current year. 'Ihe following Trustees wore elected :— Messrs J. Hodgson, E. Ck McMinn, T. Hosboruagh^ P. James, and W. Livingstone. • Ujeasra D Kollo and J. Sherret were appointed auditors ; and t Messrs A. y. felierret and J. Morrison, fenceI viewers. A rote of thinks concluded the oidinary business of t'.e meeting, when Mr McMinn stated, that it h.id been decided atth; last m-efc-ingof tbe late Board to bring forward the subject of ths establishment of a school in the district, and inpve.l, '• That in the opinion of this nieetiu& tGe time has arrived for the establishment or a school at so »c central po.nt in the distr ct." Seconded by Mr Hodgson and cirried Mr Mcllinn theu rejfi » l«>t.er h-um. the Secf«ta.ry of t be Board of Etlut-ajjjqr* ou the subject, and afso atnted that he had received an offo> of. a sibo for aschaoi hi a wvjst central *il>iat)on fro-n Mr lioaser, on, ,i leasts of 30 years, afc a rental of Is per anmm. Those prese.it agreed that th

proposed pite was the most suitable one available I in the district. The boundaries, of the proposed i E luca"ional disfcriot to be submitted to bheii >ard of Education were aa; reed upon, and the Chairman of tho new B;ar>l was nquested to open con.uiunieaMon with the Board of Education towards carry ingout the ol ject of the abovereßoln • tions. An item of£lsf>r the removal and repining of the ferry-bouse atfe Kori, cause 1 some di^nnBion, as it was eaid tint the Waikato S. N Ca.^ thould have been mude to pay all the expense as they were the C/iuso ff it by building their ' itoi-M in the front of tha forry-houB« l > and tins it up; but as the monry> was spent if •ippeare-i to bo «sele«j to eav any mere about \tj, Mr W. 11. Jtme^ proposed an-l Mr J. it, Thompson seconded, thut the future Board' should betfin allvtorka on the roarii soon enough to enable them to be done before the bad wither sets in, as the late system was a IO3S to both contractoif and r^epayfrs. As this motion, was considered a voto of censure on the Jate board (vllhough not meant -a* such), Mr James withdrew it. It was resolved thit alut be prepared and ihe district b« canvassed .to see how much can ba collected towards building a schoolhouse* . '