HAMILTON ROAD DISTRICT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2624, 7 May 1889, Page 2

HAMILTON ROAD DISTRICT.

I'llK annual meeting of ratepayers of tho Hamilton Road District was held on Saturday last, at 2 p.m. The following ratepayers wore present, viz. : Messrs Atkinson, Jones, Livingstone, Marker, Kxulby, .Maunder, Goodwin, J. Kdgecumbe, and G. l'j'!gecnnibo.--Tho Chairman of the Hamilton Kuad Board, Mr William Jones, presided, and read tho notice convening the meeting. The minutes of the last annual meeting of ratepayers for the year ending March 81st., 18811, was read as follow-; :- Receipts : General rates and arrears, t'l-o 11s 4d ; Government subsidy, £3< 2s 2d ; amount overpaid to bank by collector, Id; balance overdraft Bank New Zealand, 31st. March, I.BB'J, £2b' 11s Id ; total, £184 4s Sd. Expenditure : Salaries and allowances, £21 12s 0d ; office expenses, £2 2s ; advertising and printing, £l> las: law costs, 10s u'd ; bank interest, £3 3s 7d ; maintenance of roads and bridges, £40' 13s 3d ; refunds, £3 Os !)d; deposit (contractors) returned £2; interest and sinking fund, £14 17s ; overdraft at Bank New Zealand, April Ist., 1888, £S3 10s Id ; total, £184 4s Bd. Assets, £12(i7s7d; liabilities, £31 17s l<1; pu'.ihc debt, £207 5s 2d ; reserves (nil).—Mr Maunder proposed, and Mr Atkinson seconded, "That the balance-sheet as read be adapted, subject to the auditor's report as to correctness." — (Carried.) —Mr Atkinson askfid the Cloik what amount had been expended on roads and bridges by the Board during the last three years, and what proportion of rates was paid by the southern (Te ftapn) end of the district, also what amount of rates had been spent on the southern end during the last three years. —The Clerk, in reply, stated that the expenditure for the last three years on roads and bridges was £713 ; the amount expended on the Te Ra|j:i end of tho district for the period named was £170 odd, the proportion of rate would bo £07 for the southern end and £43 northern, out of every £100 collected rates. —Mr Maunder said that it was unfair to take the last three years' expenditure only as a basis. He would therefore ask that the expenditure on the two portions of the district for the last twelve years be shown.—The Clerk said that without including £150 special grant and £50 donation by Col. DeQnincey, the amount expended on the Te Rapa end for twelve years, from 1877 to ISSi) was £2550, as against £1550 Pukete end, so that allowing that the ratepayers of the southern end were entitled to a larger proportion, as shown they had had more than they were fairly entitled to up to the present time, — Mr Atkinson suggested that it would be advisable to keep separate accounts for each end of the district. —Tho Chairman remarked that so long as ho held office he should endeavour to act impartially if he saw auy work urgently required to be done, he would sue that it was carried out whether in the north or south out] of the district. A voto of thanks to the chairman terminated the meeting.