MOUNT SOMERS ROAD BOARD.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7816, 8 June 1909, Page 4

MOUNT SOMERS ROAD BOARD.

The Mount Somers Road Board met on Thursday, June 3. Present—Messrs Jli. Gates-(in the chair), J.. Matheson, and H. H. Sharplin. Mr Gates was re-elected chairman, and expressed thanks to members for their continued confidence. Apologies for absence were received from Messrs Cullen and Lambie, and leave was granted. A grant of £1 was voted as an aid to Mr Thos. Brown from clearing a drain that, on account of insufficient capacity, allowed flood water to overflow and scour the main road, the clearing to be m accordance with the Board's specifications. Authority was given Mr Dugald Fergus to grade the ploughed roadside alojig Price's and the adjacent main road, at a cost of two shillings per« chain. ■ In response to a letter from the County Council, the chairman was elected the Board's representative at the ' conference to be called by the Council for the consideration of the control of county business. The clerk was instructed to put up notices that the Telephone Bureaus, Ashburton, woul dbe open on Sundays and post office . holidays for ' medical calls only, and for thirty minutes, at the following hours: 9 a.m., noon, 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m. The Secretary of the New Zealand Counties Association, ' Wellington, wrote enclosing circulars relative to local authorities superannuation.—The information asked for was authorised to be given, and m discussing the various alternatives offered by the Association, the Board, on the' chairman's motion, expressed its preference for the establishment of a fund "m groups by mutual assent." ' Mr Thos. Mcßae wrote, asking leave I to plough the roadside at his frontage, m order to kill gorse.—Leave was granted, provided Mr'Mcßae levelled the ploughod portion and sowed it clown m grass. " After fully discussing the need of a gorse crusade, the Board, on the chairman's motion, resolved that members should bring up to next meeting a list of properties, m their several wards, afficted. with gorse-grown frontages, and stringent notices to clear would be served m all cases. : Mr Mawson wrote, asking the Board to fill m and shingjq a hollow, m the road above 'the; Mo'urit Sobers/ church. To be attended to. The Board accepted Mr D. Fergus's offer to c«t 'iovsi from, burn and plough thoroughly, reserve 1605, opposite the Afford Forest school, and Mr SharpHn was authorised to obtain offers for a coating of fine shingle on the main Alford Forest road near Staveley. _ After discussion of the Board's financial position, the chairman gave notice that he would move at the next meeting of the Board that a general rate of one half-penny m the pound be struck and levied on the rateable property of the district. - The tenders of Messrs T. Bright and D. Fergus for contracts on: the WinH V4BS I'Wil T9, •ORGued, and'that of Mr 1 Jjrig;Jit^accepfed?' v' ■ vl :'< Accounts Having''been passed, the Board rose. ■ ■ . ' ': : ■ -■