ROAD BOARDS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16208, 10 May 1918, Page 2

ROAD BOARDS.

LE BONS BAY. At the- monthly meeting of the Le Bons Bay Road Board Air W. G. Dalgleuh was elected chairman for tlio coming term. Tho chairman reported thnt the members had, in company with the County Council's representatives, inspected the damago done to tho wharf road, estimating it at £12J. It wag resolved- to ask tho Aliaroa County Council for a grant towards the repairing of the road and the wharf, which had also been damaged by the heavy ees. The chairman was appointed the Board's representative at tho Local Bodies' conference regarding nn iucrcaee of employees wages to bo held at Duvauchclle on Xay 25th. , , , Tho clerk reported that all rates had been paid for the year 1917-18. On tha 6Ui inst. a committee had met to consider the matter of raising funds in tho Eastern Bays' district of the Peninsula, for tho Banks Peninsula Patriotic Society, whereby a. sum of £3000 is to be raisod. In the last appeal £122 5s had been raised, and it was expected that this sum might bo considerably increased. Subscription listp would be taken round, badges would bo sold, and socials held with tho usual accessories to assist,in accumulating funds to place their king at th» head of tho Carnival. On Slay Ist the cheese factory had closed, | the season being a record one as far as production was concerned, over 100 crates above others seasons having been exported.