ROAD BOARD MEETING.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 51, 1 September 1888, Page 2

ROAD BOARD MEETING.

The above Board met on Thursday evening. Present — Messrs Leach (chair), Brabazon,. Hensen, and Packer. Minutes of former meeting read and ' confirmed on the motion of Mr Brabazon, seconded by Mr Hensen. •' An account of M was received from Mr J. O'Leary.— Mr Hensen would like to know if Mr Brabazon could give ' any information as to whether the work for which the £4 was claimed as pa/meut was properly done. The work had been done on Newling's road, and Mr Brabazon would know if it had been properly carried out.— Mr Brabazon had seen the work that had been done, and was quite satisfied with it.— Mr Hensen thought that that; being the case, the account had better be^ passed for payment, and he would therefore move that Mr O'Leary's account be paid.— Mr Packer would second Mr Hensen's proposition, which was carried. Mr Bengtsen wrote asking the Board to reduce his rate, as he had sold some three or four acres of his land to Mr Kuthze. — No action taken. Mrßrennan wrote drawing the attention of the Board to a part of Newling's road where there was a spring that rendered a culvert necessary. — Mr Brabazon was of opinion that if some large stones were put in where the road was complained of it would answer all requirements, but the matter would have to stand over till the dry weather set in ; no attempt to make the road good would succeed until then.— Air Hensen thought that pipes would be better than anything else that could be used for the purpose of. rendering the road fit for traffic ; they were more durable than a wooden culvert and quite as cheap, even if not cheaper than either stones or wood. How long would the culvert have to be? — Mr Brabazon thought about 14 feet.— Mr Hensen considered that pipes would only cost about 17s, and he did not think that stones could be got any cheaper.— Mr Packer : You can get plenty of stones on my section. — Mr Brabazon suggested that the Chairman should go and see the place. — The Chairman would go and see what the place looked like in a few days. The Chairman informed the Board that the Bank book had been received, and showed a balance to credit of ,£lO9 11s sd. There was a Government cheque- to be paid in, but as t'aere were also liabilities to be met that would be somewhere about what the Board had to its credit. A man had been put on for a day to do some necessary work in order to keep the road clear. Mr Hensen would like to draw attention to a tree standing on Wilson's road. This tree would fall some time or other, and if permitted,to fall would smash down his fence. He was getting his paddock ploughed, and did .not want his £ence knocked down when crops were in. He wanted to see that tree cleared, but did not think that it could be telled so as to clear the road.— Mr Packer had seen the tree, and was quite sure that— if not suffered to fall of its own aGcord —it could be felled so as to fall clear of the road. — Mr Hensen hardly thought so. While tins road was under discussion, he would draw attention to a drain there that wanted digging deeper. He thought that either Mr Green or Mr Davis could be got to do the work. It would take one or two days to do this work, which was badly needed.— Mr ' Packer had seen this place ; it wanted attending to, but all that was wanted could be done in a couple of hours.— Left in the hands of Messrs Hensen and Packer, Mr Hensen wanted to know why the County Overseer had not let the water off where the Wilson road struck the Papatu road.— Mr Brabazon was informed that no metal would be put on till the fine weather came. He supposed that, to drain the place mentioned the metal would have to be disturbed.— Mr Hensen was quite certain that the water could be let off into the drain which ran under the line. A few hours would do all that was wanted without disturbing the metal. On the motion of Mr Hensen, seconded by Mr Pucker, a rate of fd in the £ was struck. The Chairman stated that the Town Board were willing to allow the Board to use their (Town Board's) office on paying 3s per month, and contributing half the cost of firewood and oil.— lt was decided to accept the offer of the Town Board, the Road Board to hold its next meeting in the Town Board's office. __«_«_