tVsOUMT HUTT ROAD T.OARD.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9654, 10 July 1919, Page 3

tVsOUMT HUTT ROAD T.OARD.

; i;o monthly meeting of the .Mount

sivi r. iioad Board was held in .the ii.,si" '• office on Monday. Mr J. Carr presided, and all the members were

jioisrs Smith and Irwin waited on I.'i i/.iurd in connection with the planting of trees on Peace Celebration uay, and the board approved of what Meyers Smith and Irwin had done.

<:U''!s«rs Stone and Green, as a deputation from the Football Club, waited on the board and asked that the Football Club be not compelled to alter its ground from the present site, and that the Cricket Club be not allowed to lay down a concrete pitch at any place within the area of the dead-ball line. They suggested that before anything is pot.fcled representatives of all the sports clubs meet the, ;board on the Domain ground and go fully into the matter. The board agreed to tako this course, and Mr Dart, on behalf of the Cricket Club, concurred. Mr Maginness reported he had ascertained from the Ashburton County Council that it would pay onethird of the cost of putting a. concrete bridge over the creek at Chine's. The board agreed to the proposal provided tho council bridge the large water-race on tho Three-mile Road.

Tho creek at dune's which it has now been decided to bridge has been the scone of several accidents, there being at present a high dangerous wooden bridge close up against the fence.

A lengthy discussion took place on tho method of dealing with the footpaths round the principal block of the township. At present the concrete kerbing has been j-mt in, and the footpaths in question are v in a. filthy condition. On the motion of Mr Doherty it was decided to level those footpaths and shingle them in the meantime. The tenders of Messrs Duff, Brick, and Leaman, to provide man, dray, and two horses for shingling work on the roads, was accepted, the rate of pay being 24s per day. A great deal of routine business was dealt with.