NEWCASTLE HIGHWAY BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1256, 17 July 1880, Page 2

NEWCASTLE HIGHWAY BOARD.

A atEETiNG of the Board was held at the Royal Mail Hotel, JNgaruawahia, on the 13th instant. Present : Messrs Harris (chairman), Day, and Corboy. The meeting was called to arrange for the introduction of the Local Elections Act, and to fix the date for the annual meeting. A letter requesting the gazetting of the Act had been forwarded by the Secretary, and during the sitting of the Board a telegram was read from the Under-Secre-tary, informing the Board that the Local Elections Act would be gazetted in time to hold the election in July. Mr T. Y. Fitzpatrick was appointed Returning Officer. A telegram wa3 received from the Minister for Public Works, re the expenditure of the grant on authorised deviations, and asking for a tracing of roads upon which it was intended that the money should be expended. The Engineer was instructed to supplytracing. Mr Corboy wished to know how it was that Mr Byron got access to documents which were the property of the Board. He referred to the petition sent to the Board, a copy of which Mr Byron published in the Waikato Times, for reasons known to himself, and supposed to be ! antagonistic to the general wish of the ratepayers. The Secretary cautioned Mr Corboy, and advised him to deal carefully with Mr Byron's name, and the matter dropped by Mr Barton protesting his entire ignorance as to how Mr Byron became possessed of the document alluded to. A letter was read from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, requesting the Board to say if allotments 149, 150, and 157, in the Newcastle district, should be reserved for public purposes. It was resolved that they were not required for public purposes. The Board then weit into finance, and found they were in a good position. It was ascertained that the Waipa County Council had not handed over to the Board the full amonnt of Government subsidy ; balance due, £13 1 2s. A map of the district Ordered by the Board amounted to £21 ss. Mr T. Y. Ficzpatrick, a ratepayer residing on the west bank of the Waipa, brought before the Board the necessity that existed for road and bridge accommodation on that fide of the river. On the motion of Mr Corboy, the Engineer was instructed to prepare a plan and estimate of the proposed work. — [Own Correspondent.]