KIRIKIRIROA ROAD BOARD.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1445, 6 October 1881, Page 2

KIRIKIRIROA ROAD BOARD.

The usual monthly meeting of the Board wao held at the VVaikdto County Council Chambers, Hamilton, yesterday, when there were present Messrs "Primrose (Chairman,) Gillett H. Steele, and J. S. ttunciman. The minutes of the previous meeting -were read and confirmed, and the outward correspondence waß read and approved. A petition was icceived from a number of settlers in the Ngaruawahia district, who recently purchased suburban lands at the Government sale praying the Board to cleai the roads leading to their property as they were about to feuce and build afc once. Mr E. Fitzpalriok Chairman of the Ngaruawahia Town Board, also wrote drawing the Board's attention to the diagiaeeful state>f the ioud between Ngam.iwahia and Taupiri, which was almost impassable. It was resolved that Messrs Gillett and Lovell meet the petitioners at Ngaruawahia on Monday next, the 10th inst., at 11 a.m., for the purpose of arranging what is required to be done in the matter of the roads between that place and Taupiri. It was resolved to employ Mr Glenny to revise the roll, at the tender price, £3. It was also resolved to write to the Minister for Public Works, asking that the amount voted for a bridge over the Komokor.ni, near Taupui, be handed to the Board. The following tender^ were received for draining and fawning road between Woodlands and Taupiri, in tinee sections, at per chain :— P. Qunin, No. 1, 23s 4d ; No. 2, 23s 4d ; No. 3, 14b 4d ; B. Brown (accepted), 9s 3d, 9s 3d, 3s ; G. Brown, 17s Gd, 17s Gd, 8s 6d ; H. D. Cooke, l(ss 2d, 16s 2d, 12s ; Franklin and Cooke, 17s, 17a 3d, 8s Gd ; Henry and Annett, 16s 6d, 16s 3W, 8s 3d ; Willis and Locke, 16s 3d, 1 5s Hid, 8s 2d ; Pearce and Boyle, 325, 30s. 22s Gd. The following tenders were opened for dealing road from Taupiii to Woodlands : Willis and Locke, 4s Gd per chain; Peaice and Boyle, V] 10s per mile (accepted). The .Secretary was instructed to notify tho conti actor to wait until the road had been picked up by the Surveyoi. The following tenders were received for engineering and surveying t— W. C. Breakcll : Pick up old road, £3 uer mile (minimum, A3 3s) ; surv.ey new road, £11 13s ; plans and supervision of bridge, 5 per cent., but not less than £5 ss. T. G. Snndoh: respectively, £s ss, £335,£10 10s, .5 per cent., 15. The tender of Mr Sandes was accepted, and the secretary was directed to ask him to proceed with the work at o'nc( . The follow ing accounts wero passed for payment :— Campbell (timber), £2 16s 9d ; Reynolds (bridge), £73 ; J. Davis (labour), £7 2s; E. Johu&on (do.), £7 4s ; Walsh (on account), £10. Mr Gillett was instructed to inspect , and pass die work on Walsh's contract afc Kiddle's Hill. It was resolved to call/" for tenders for the formation of about half -a- mile ot the Tramway road near Johnstone's Lake, and for certain earthworks at Malcolm's Cieek, near Powell's, Attention was drawn to the state of the bridge at Hinton's Gully, on the Piako road, and it was resolved that the Trustees meet on the spot on Wednesday next at 3 p.m., to arrange vhat course it is best to follow in regard to erecting a new bridge. Messrs Steele and Runciman were authorised to get the land along Captain McPherson's fence, on the east side of the Cambridge road ploughed, on account of the numerous rabbit holes, the owner of the land to bear half the expence. It was decided to instruct the surfaceman, J. Davis, to alter the fence at the foot of the cntting near McPheraon's, its present position being dangerous. The Chairman was authorised to procure a dray and two horses to cart gravel on the Hamilton-Hokonui road, the same to be worked by the Board's surface-men. This was all the business.

At a meeting at Rangiora lately Mr Hubbard read a paper proving the adaptability of the colony to the growth of linseed, and contending that the industry could be successfully and profitably carried out in New Zealand. The Dunstan Times states that the pheasants, patridges, Californion quail, and other of the imported birds that were making their way up the valley of the Clutha, are all beinjr killed by the phosphorised -wheat and oats laid down for the rabbits. Aboxjt 30 men are at present employe on the Wantwood estate rabbiting, and the returns are averaging 5000 skins per week. Numbers have no doubt died in their holes besides this. Few rabbits can be seen now in places where thousands wero formerly wont to revel.