NGARUAWAHIA. Annual Meeting of the Ngaruawahia Highway Board.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1258, 22 July 1880, Page 2

NGARUAWAHIA. Annual Meeting of the Ngaruawahia Highway Board.

The annual meeting of the ratepayers of the Ngaruawahia Township took place on Saturday last at the Royal Mail Hotel. Mr Davis, having been elected Chairman, called upon the Chairman of the out-going Board to read the balancesheet, which was as follows :— Receipts : To balance in hand, L'2i 83 lid ; cash from Chairman, 5s 6d ; rates collected, LB2 8slld; arrears, L311037d; .subsidy fi-om Government, Ll2O Ss ; Wai pa County Council, LSS 7s 8d ; Dog Tax, L 3 Ss; rent of reserves, &c, L 9 lo.s Gd. Total, L 360 12a Id.— Expenditure : Sundries, L 25 os 3d ; salaries, Ll(i ; commission rates, Lb' 7s 3d ; valuation expense*, LI 19s Gd ; advertising, Ll<s Os 9d ; grass-seed, L8 8s ; trees, Ll2 14s 4d ; embankment, L 57 3s Id ; posts, L 74 10a 9d ; old accounts for sundries, Li 8s ; balance in hand, L 4 8s 1 Id ; balance in Bank, L 145 13s 7d, Total, L 365 12s Id Great credit is due to the Secretary for the clear and concise manner in which the account* were kept. It was proposed by Mr T. Y. Fitzpatrick, seconded by Mr Vant, that the balance-sheet as read be adopted and passed. — Carried. It was proposed, as a hint to the incoming Board, to test the feelings of the settlers as to the rate. A rate of Is in the L was proposed and seconded, to which there was an amendment of 6d, which latter was carried, Avhen, to my intense astonishment, a ratepayer proposed that the original proposition should be put before the meeting, whick was done and carried, thus leaving the rate i» statu quo. Messrs E. Fitzpatrick, Dickeson,Lang, Butcher, and Davies were elected Trustees ; Messrs Burnett and Kcesing, Auditors ; Messrs Canty and Erickson, Fenceviewers. At a meeting of the Board, held immediately afterwards, Mr E. Fitzpatrick was elected Chairman, and a rate of 9d in the L was struck.— [Own Correspondent.]

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