ROAD BOARDS.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4196, 8 January 1879, Page 5 (Supplement)

ROAD BOARDS.

ELLE9MERE. A meeting of the Board was held at Leeston. on Friday, 3rd January. AU the members were present"; Mr rßeiinie in -the chair. Letters were read—From Mr E. C. Latter, Deputy Land Tax Gommustoner, asking for a copy of the valuation. list, and requesting the Board to recommend some competent person to'prepare it. The chairman explained that he-had recommended Mr Garetos-, by whom the - work had been * done.: A circular was receired from Mr J._L. Wilson, aa chairman, of committee appointed.- by the several Road Boards and County Councils for the purpose of obtaining iayment of the portion of the Cantor-' bury land fund'due id rthem, askicg the Board-to ahare'-in the-payment of legal' expends incurred- The Board resolved" to share-'of "the~ ;cost as requested." Letter from Dr. Chapman, inedieal the,, Jiccal Board, of, -.Health, calling thte. Board's attention -to the" ylbgraeef ul state o£ the~dram\ running from tpe~two hotels in, SoTitEbridge on to -the iaunmtu road; The Board' resofred to jjive the. hotelkeeperß notic»,"i"nd to carry out of the Health Act.' Koto James Oulleri,': asking the Board -to something extri on his contract for: drain on Cant's' road r "on account'bf its'being too hard towoilt. The Board decided to allow the wprk to:etand otkp untilthe »nta,nin. iTI c Board decided to allow contracts to, be luspcsdad for aik weeH for the.The .The orerieer's report' iWae >eid and bomHirod. The pay-sheet,' Umouniing to passed fot" payment. A general meeting of the ratepayers"*'was then beld-at' the Eoad Bioard oflß6e;'Le*esßon;'bn'Friday"at , 'llo9ll. .All ihe members .of the £oard' and., about a dozen ratepayers,were, present.,^ £&r K John Ronnie, Obairmaii'df tneßpard,x)6bif pied the chain. The minutes of the last annual meeting,.and two extraordinary iheetinge which .had been 1 held daring the year, were read and coni- ! firmed. The following report'was then read: -r ".The .3Elleemere._Soad.--Boaxd-preaetite thj following report to the ratepayers of the diei trict to tlie' tatieffcftlry'Btate of, th( "Board'e fundi they'have been enabled to obm; pleta a great amonnt of work during past year. - Thirly-eii and a quarte? miles oi roads hare been formed, and nineteen and i half ..miles have been metalled..-, About thre< mile* of new-drains have been made, and fiv< and a-half miles of "'drain out ori bye. roads' low-lying laods, with formation on .one sidei In addition gullies hare been filled in on ttu dry roads, bridges J and onlvej-tis cpnstrucied where neoeejary, and about fifteen miles oJ formation: and seven and a-half miles oJ metalling in different parts of"the district are now, under correct, the harvest. In Vome few urgent cases,

where the occupiers;, of iand hard no othei means of access to their properties, the Board has expended district fuucla on the tramway reserves during the past year. It ia probable however; tbatf these reserWe "will pimped under the control of ths Uo&d Boards. *The aceotints'of the Board for the past year <»re opin'/ioi, inspectioa,- and -the.'"balance ih'eefc; eK<)wing -receipts and eipendifcure ovei tU dilfaient;/subdivisions...of th& district,-is Op for theinformation of'theratepayers. ft will Iwasen itiat jtfraf olluwing eumshaTe been .expended' during t.he !pastf the lake efcbdftjsion, jei^iCadjttihe'Eiiinch^tfftii^l^di 'In Wβ Coast 'subdivision, '£f SOspi^^d,j-,-in.the •Jrwell! sabdirieiojC £1049 4tsoGdcji:i& Hhe Jlakaia etibdi^i§o«', T £4o9-Ue 3d cbstl .o£ mSteriai;S:c., £416 fng "expfliaet -fo>r the Boa& r ,faesa&3f»»r,iia- , "ClniiVe £ri»ting,» -ln-j -The for Quisti4Twing.Vo'ke are about the pssefcs, aß.eh<yrn on the balance-eheefc before you, inclusive'bf the balance with the Union B&nk of iiustraUa, Souffißri3fe, amount to £22#17r..55.6ii The,BQvAJ3MJasmtA.oub the.-wiebee of the ratepayers in Beffutaticms of .Local BlectioDß 2ict; brought into fbroie vi the district, and"thu is Wβ first election which tak«s place under it. ><■£ meeting of the ratepayers win helcbMay<3l?fc,',pn petition of J. Bluett and t) others; 'to protect agaipet the North Kakaia Boardof Oonßervators-borrowing large tvaas of-monjpy to spend on protective worke. There were about fifty ratepayers present, and a petition was prepared asking ths Government to remoye (he present" Board to- allow the rate.payers an opp'ortanity to elect a new Board. -Mr »Blu|et6 took.; charge of the> petition. During the y«ar the Selwyn Qowttiy Gpuncil have adopted: 1 the whole of the Counties Act. They have not"been long enough_ini force yet to show what assistance they are,_' likely to be to ' ! the' =: Boad Board, .hnt I understand..the Oauncil Jaave_no .intention at prasenfc to interfere with thet duties of •the By eevertii Oorinty; CoiftiiifiSi" and Boards for!the purpote of fibtaiijipg paypieiib of portion of; the Canterbury land them. The Icomniittee decidjsd. jtp go to law with!. with a'view of: com-peliing'-'the 'Goveramentito pay'the< money flue tothe'm; : l'Tour Board johj*rffe?d; to eljare the eipenße» of legal pfoSeettlnjge ac .they thqvjghfc.ifc jtrasia question- for niembere of the Houee-of Rfepireaenialives Through-the,|jsifionß^f,,Mi S. JT. Jmtii the recreationiind cemetery reserves have been defined, and-a p-übHcmeet-.ingLheM,? at- wlhzch.- traeteea_iere- elected in .*hom fbey ara 'now treekgd;.- TboißoaraTha! repeatedly referred, to-ithe encroaohment oi gorie* uponthe rbade mi differenf" partsoFlhe district, and would strongly: urge all who are it to spjread to have oXithe IPubTU'Worke. £^i< which per dienu for ;every .'day after d,iie notice-is given /falba'hon list; i» flow being , prepared, ,ani will utie completed 15th,. of JanaatyV. The "valuation fdrtW land-tax is also ia : Str liann : : #ie Court at the reqne»t o% ~fiie Board, hie salary hak : ;bee» inoreaied bji wae re^e|vjng ;j as f clerk to Benchi 'jaod'Se new give|. 7 h%'w|ole -tion tci fcJietluMefcof .the fipaicf, which, fae 'carried oTitfrf ."entireßatiefaotiaff of "the Board' 'payerii TJje rejport.and,' palancersheet were

■ttuaniniously adopted. Ia anewer'tO" qufef tioniy abe uhairman stated that , ;. the. J pstition "agaihsC thelfortKEaktie; , Board* of 06nseri but had not flinWDeeitf heard of., Mr. Bluett was not present. That the EJlesmere Boad, . .fiottrl;:W._agreed Ja^^SaskjbM*M Jibe degaLflipensee incurred by the committeeijof •Boad'Boards inlneir-litigation wifcbi-tHe Go>» ■vernmtot re funds." MrJoKn'CuniiiDgham' a wteibf thanks tathe "Board, coupled with.the name "oft their chair 3 "ian.tma 7 fcaexr'actionß, which: had .'tendered to the advahcententof the ; district; •Mr'Benniereturned.thanks. '••?. ■;-.-■ -i A> meeting of tbe Dew Board w»8 then held.' 'ilessre Bourn and Boag 1 , the Tiewly elected; -2Mr| JohttEenaie waeJre.electedvchairmae. : .The , "minutes I of* .the previous meeting, con-f -* T.firmed. Beßtiojd'frqin Mr Hill .and others ro road through theßrbbkland*-«ttte"-was :eon4 '■ "eideree, anji the was ■.instructed to ascertain on what terns tbe land for, fihe road: could be purchased through Broqklands and ; Ipwood's. c overseer" wae directed to apply to the- -to 1 resferrel "piece-ot land on the fiake , -Bat,'near Mr D. Marehall'e'j for the purpose of pST"