PIRONGIA HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1574, 5 August 1882, Page 2

PIRONGIA HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

Tiik annual meeting of the ratepayers of this district was held in the school-house on Saturday, the 29th ult. The weather being very inclement and bad for travelling, the meeting was not a very crowded one. However, at last we mustered a few over the number required to form a legal meeting, but at a somewhat later hour than the advertised time. Mr J. H. Thompson was proposed as chairman, and took the chair. The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and confirmed. Mr James Sherrett then read a statement of the last year's receipts and expenditure which, being considered perfectly satisfactory, after some little discussion were passed as correct. The election of a new board was then proceeded with, and there was some difficulty in getting the required number. The following ratepayers were at iast induced to stand : — Messrs W. Jordan, Isaac Hodgson, E. G. McMinn, J. H. Thompson, and James McGuirk ; auditors, Messrs A. S. Sherrett and Finlayson. — After the election of the board, Mr Thompson, the chairman, said that the present time was a very good one to get the opinion of the meeting, or of the district, about,the furze nuisance. He had brought the question up for the last three years, and nothing had been done, and in, , some paints of the district the roads were almost impassable — in /fact, fast becoming like those in the [Raglan* district. — Mr McMinn proposedf^that new board give those settlerandtiqe who have furze on»tlie roads'to clef#j|off.-— Mr I. Hodgson seconded the proposition, which. jWasi carried. -•;»,- At a meeting of the new board, held in the? school-house after the 3 annual meeting, Mr.E. G-. 'McMinn was elected chair- ; man.— r[Own- Correspondent;]; ■. j

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