EPSOM ROAD BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 71, 24 March 1915, Page 7

EPSOM ROAD BOARD.

The regular meeting of the • Epeom Road Board was held last "night, the following members being present:—Messrs. -F. H. Wood (Chairman), E. Clay, , .1. B. Macfarlane, H. Frost, and 8.-G. Clark. Drainage.—The-.- question of drainage works 'authorised..hy the ratepayers some time ago was discussed- A poll was taken toy which the .Board'was'granted permission to raise -a - loan' of £.55,000 for the insrtallatidn of-drainage works, ;but.tbe-BQard afterwards found it necessary to exc-luHe"a"P<*-tion —Coronation Road and the properties in the neighbourhood of Windmill Road and Disraeli -Street—from;the scheme. - Before a final settlement was made, the- Board thought it. advisable to consult their solicitors, upon the- questiohrpf postnonemegt;ln. those portions of the district." The lawyers replied in a letter read last-evening, whlctt stated that, provided the postponement was hot for an unreasonable length of time, there .was no legal objection to the.proposal; 7 It'was deSdea'-that it. would, be advisable to obtain-a further-opinion asito whether 'theßoard had'the' power to. remit the drainage" rate' In the areas in which the 'work-is'to be postponed.-.' J,'-.. .-■- ~'.: c:< Boad'^Works.—A: notice ye as .received from the • Town -<*terk gta tlng-j that the City Council intended. t« break .np and dig into the surface of Patterson. Road. Mountain Road. Gillies' Avenue.";'VFalrfSxf Roaß;' and across Manukau Road to St. .Mark's-.Avenne, -torthe'purpose of.Jayinjgan; additional water main, between.the Mount Eden and Mount •Hobsoh-reservoirs.-'• The "new main wonld follow the route of the existing main. The said r.that made that the" roads"were'"left: In -ka good a condition- as 7, they -were when'rtfte wOTireemmenced. •. Otherwise, ie said.:..the Board had.jio option -to,***, done._..". jj;ZZ .'_.:.( ;-. 'ZJ-.J. ..Z.. -Z', ...