DOMAIN BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1253, 10 July 1880, Page 2

DOMAIN BOARD.

Thk usual monthly meeting of tne Hamilton Domain Board was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening. Present : Dr Beale (in the Chair) Messi's. Jones, Price, Mull ions, McGarrigle, Davis, Peat and Vialou. — The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, and the outward correspondence was read and approved. The Clerk reported that the solicitors of the Board had written to several of the defaulting tenants of the domain lands for payment of their accounts, but had received no reply. — The Chairman said the solicitors ought to have written stating such to be the case. It was an act of cUsoQurtesy.— -It w<w resolved that the

Clerk writo to the solicitors asking* for .a. written reply, to be considered at a epeoial v meeting of tho Board on Tuesday. A letter was re;ul from Mr Percy Smith, Chief Surveyor, stating that ho had "not yet had time to go over the pirns of the domain lauds prepared by Mr T. G. Sandes. owing: to the prassure o£ woik during 1 the hesbion, and lio could not say when he would be able to got it done. —Mr Vialou understood that the Board was to submit to Mr Smith the question as to -the reasonableness or otherwise of Mr Sandos' charges. — The Clerk said it had been agreed to leave this, matter until they had proved that the plans were correct. — Mr Vialou said if the charges were ,j right they ought to pay the money, as they had no agreement with Mr Sandes about the style of the work. — Messrs MoGarrigle and Jones both said that Mr Sandes himself had agreed to submit the work to {Mr Percy Smith. — The minutes of past meetings of the Board were referred to, and the Mayor discovered that Mr Sandes had never actually been authorised to execute the work. It had been arranged at a former meetiag that he should be engaged to do the work, provided he was found to be a licensed purveyor, which he was not, and a committee had been appointed to go over the ground with him. This committee had not apparently made any report, and the work appeared to have proceeded without any authority. — No action was taken in the matter. — The Board then adjourned till Tuesday.