RANGIAOHIA HIGHWAY BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 839, 1 November 1877, Page 2

RANGIAOHI A HIGHWAY BOARD.

■ ,■■'"■■'.! October 29,7 ruis monthly-meeting of 'this ''Board "us held m Te Awamutu.pn £atmJay last, when there : ; Wu s, as u^L. a tall attendance of the trustees. A letter was received by the Bjard from Air- iiurstr, the Mayor 'oi Auckland, appealing tor subscriptions trom the" disiricc Vifoards ' the ladiau iUmiue .iitflief Ftmd., The Board resolved' -cp' advertise a public meeting to 'be held m JL' e Awanmcu on Saturday next, for the purpose ol Helping, thii^ood-tsause A letter -w^ reeved *tfy the Boards engineer recommending chat m future it would, -be well to advertise m Hamilton for tenders tor works required ou the Ohaupo h-oad, so thao men from the former place could nave aa opportunity os going m for the works, arid thu competing with the local mcii He teels confident that by dodoiriA- WO rk would be, done much cheaper' than it has recently been let, for at Ohaupo ihe trustees said that -mi n matter of cheap 'work' at ! Ohaiipo by Hamilton riaen they could aLjtfall i v with the engineer's views. On the contrary they S - Aw ; 'fe* Awamutu .md Kiaikiiu men lick the tfamil ton side m carrying out and cutting iowu neavy niils at, so to speak, th° liamilton men's doors; •■■.,■ An application was made by the Maungapiko Board fV some £20 *ud 10 be the balance remaining due oy the Kangiaohia Board of the half expenses of a bridge erected about tour years ago between the two disUicLs, near Lake Ng^o^, ' ' Ihe present trustees knew very little about the transaction The bridge, they said, was m Juch an unfrequented part o f their district ciiut none oi them remembered seemg it; but they had heard oHit, ana had learned that the bridge was uoton tneroad. This,- thef W was contrary to the ; intention of the board with whom the half expenses o the work oxlgi Uut ed, we ft &g f . the ratepayers mi n general. By the records of the Board it f , ppear ed that between £40 and *5() aad S0 W pence were paid towards the expenses of the bridge m question They therefore concluded that the matter must have bsen finally settled from the fact of there being such nice precision m the matter of pence oetween the two Boards. The gentleman (delegate) who attended on behalf of the Maungapiko Board said that t n e matter was left over so long that he himself was beginning to forget all about 'it. Tue sum of £21 i s wag paßse^ •ml paid by chequo at the meeting for road works. ' ° Mr James- Kennedy was tlie successful lenderer for the. ,fasci,njn<* at rlie Major's Mil! ; and Mr J, £ e l tor thai of the Te Rahu work. The furze on the roads are still giving trouble, and the Board have resolved this time to make a \jlCan sweep of them. There are to be no more malce-pretencts of cutting the tops to cover the undergrowth. >< j A radical reformation every where is the order. They must come , out— -root and branch. r; ' ; ■'*;-■' I Our unfortunate dogs', daysi arfe numbered to Ist January next.^ After that time, there is no 'dog. jto bark m the district without being " collared." — •Correspondent. . ■■