MOUNT ROSKILL ROAD BOARD

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 70, 22 March 1916, Page 9

MOUNT ROSKILL ROAD BOARD

a i« s ■ Tne usual meeting of the Mount Roskill Eoud Board was held last night, Mr. T. 3 E. Hayr (presiding. There were also present: Messrs. J. Peet, G. Winstone, sen., s H. Luke, G. Tansley, J. Parr. J. H. HopS kins. The waterworks engineer reported t having pumped 437,200 gallons of water during the tortnight. The well had gone dowu lis inches since January IT. The clerk stated that a resident in the high levels had informed him that there had r lately been an improvement in the prest sure during the past fortnight. . By-law. Prosecutions.—ln accordance 8 with notice of motion Mr. Tansley moved c "that "So .prosecutions be taken for breaches of the by-laws before the facts have been placed before the Board." At present .the matter is left with the foreman, 0 and Mr. Tansley thought lt was placing too \ much responsibility on his shoulders. AlX though the Board had secured a conviction in every case, some of them were really too " trivial. The chairman stated-' that no prof secutions were taken without the foreman •consulting him. Mr. Tansley's. motion s lapsed for want of a seconder. Straying Cattle. —Mr. Luke stated that considerable damage was being done to the v footpaths in the district by straying cattle. It'was quite a common' thing to see num- * bers of cattle feeding on the roadside; In :. fact it was used as a feeding uround by a . good many owners of cattle, who did not own an acre of ground themselves. When c the Board had employed a ranger at a a salary they had only paid him £12 a year, c and they could not expect to have the work . done properly for this money, and the only * way to overcome the nuisance was to cmi T-loy a ranger at a decent salary. He moved that applications be Invited for the position of ranger for the distelet at a salary of £30 per annum and Impounding v ™ s y Mr. Tansley »«ond._a the re t The chairman said be had counted 120 * head "of cattle, on the; road during a short ntriofl and rhanr people seemed to oe * therwer.ungu ;. to relax their relations in tols T JouToe dealt with by the new Board, but on being ipnt the motion was earned.