ROAD BOARD MEETINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume xxx, Issue 2424, 24 January 1888, Page 2

ROAD BOARD MEETINGS.

Taotaoroa Board. Tub Taotaoroa Road Board met at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Bach's Hotel, Cambridge. ' Present: N. I. Hunt (chairman), H. it. Brunskill, and J. Ivallendar. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Sfeciai. Rati-;.— Mr Brunskill said the Pinko County Council had made a special rate of -id in the £ upon tho riding, for the purpose of paying hospital charges, bank overdraft, etc., and suggested that if the Board had sufficient money in hand that they should pay it instead of letting it be collected from the ratepayers.—The Clerk reported a credit balance of £325. —It was then resolved to at once pay the rate out of the funds of the Board. Tun Government SuiislDY.—The Clerk | said the subsidy this year would be 5s in tho £, of which the Board would receive ■ 2-> (id, the County Council taking the other 1 half. ' Accounts*. —The only account passed for i payment was £fi IDs for Richard Wattam, the surfaceman. Tub Matamata Road.—Tho Chairman reported that Wattam had progressed satisI factorily with the alterations on the Taotao-roa-Matamata rood, and ho now wanted leave of absence for a month to go harvesting.—Granted.—The Chairman said the L new cutting on the above road was a little i narrow, being twelve feet; but if that was t . found not to be sufficient it could easily be , altered in the winter, when the clay, which was now very hard, would be soft. 1 This was all the business. ; Cambridge Road Board. The Cambridge Road Board met at the Criterion Hotel, Cambridge, on Saturday last, at 3 p.m. Present: Messrs J. Forrest (chairman), J. P. Tompson and J. J. Smith. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Tub Uncovered Drain.—Mr Forrest reported that Mr E. Knave had laid drain pipes across the whole of the road, as requested by the Board, and had done the - work in a most satisfactory manner. I Thk Tamahere Board.—The Clerk said the Tamahere Road Board had pair] 25s for work done in error on their roads by the 1 Cambridge contractor, and had also called ' for tenders for repairing roads adjoining the Cambridge district, as suggested by the 3 Cambridge Board at its last meeting. < Thk Hautapu Pound.—The Clerk said lie had wiitten to Mr Gelling, as directed by the Board, asking by whose authority lie had posted a notice on the above pound, threatening to prosecute anyone using it j to which he had received a somewhat hasty l'pply, in which Mr Gelling inti- - mated that he was not such a fool ,'is to put 5 the notice up. He (the clerk) had since heard that the notice had been stolen from another pound, and posted on this one for a lark bv someoue. He presumed the same person had als■• locked it up, to complete the j ike. Furze ox the RmiK-Mr Smith called the attention • f too J>"ard to a quantity of furze on tho main road at Frogmore i opposite Johnson's property now occupied . I,y Mr Joseph Butler. Resolved that Mr [ Butler be served with the usual notice to clear tho furze away. i Tenders for surfaceman,— The follows ing were the tenders received for surfacej man and supplying teams :—Thomas Wat- ; tarn, man at per day, us, with horse and i dray 7s (3d, with two horses its, extra man ; 5s "per day ; odd hours, man horse and . dray Is per hour. C. Crouch, man 5s per f day : with horse and dray 7s (id, with extra I horse, 10s ; extra man, ss. J. Wilson, man, : 4s per day ; with horse and dray, Gs 3d ; double team, 12s (Jd. W. Millan, man 5s i per dav (informal.) It was resolved that Mr Wattam's tender be accepted, as he knew the whole of the roads, and was in ; every way well acquainted with the work. Accounts. —The following accounts were passed for payment:—T. Wattam, £5 3s ■Id ; W. Peunell, £2 7s; and T. G. Sandes, £5 ss. McCullam's Contract.—The Engineer (Mr Sandes) reported that he had paid several visits to the Half-way Road, near Mr Pickering's, that had been contracted for by Mr McCullain to form and gravel, and the work not being done satisfactorily he had taken it out of the contractor's hands, and had let it to another person to finish. The Survey Office and the Board Plans.—Re the plan of the alteration at Arnold's corner, the Engineer said he had forwnrdpd the plan to the Survey Office, as directed by the Board at its last meet : iny. Mr Percy Smith had returned it unsigned, with a letter in which he said it was "very kind of the Board, but this is purely a private transaction. As a matter of fact we are not supposed to notice private dealings with land. The only way such dealings can operate advantageously is in the publication of the maps; but there is no law in force obliging Boards to give us this information, and, as a matter of fact, they don't. The land being under the Registration Act, of course the dedication or conveyance also comes under that Act." —The members thought it could hardly be considered a private transaction where, a road was being dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen. Trit Road.'—Mr George Hally' wrote requesting that the Board would repair the above road, as at present threshing machiues could not travel along it, and last year ho was a looser by not being able to get the use of one. Left to Messrs Taylor and Forrest to deal with. This was all i he business.