AKAROA-WAINUX ROAD BOARD.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17939, 6 December 1923, Page 5

AKAROA-WAINUX ROAD BOARD.

At, the last meeting' of the Akarou-~W.umu ltoad Board there were present: Messrs A. 11. Hazlock, Joe. Hayward, and 'W. 11. Moore. Apologies were received from Messrs It. A. Mould (chairman), and S. J. Vogan. Mr "W. H. Moore was voted to the chair. In respect to ihe application of T. O. Phillip3 lor full payment, on account of his Stoney Bay road contracts, it was decided to make a progress payment oi ±'i3 15s on receipt*of the engineer's certificates, the Board to inspect the road before further payments were made. Mr W. C. Giddens wrote calling attention to what he considered a vory dangerous piece of road between French Farm and Barry's Bay. He had hnd a. serious accident there recently, his car, with its occupants, going over the eide.—Received. A letter from the ranger in regard to straying stock was held over until a lull meeting. In response to enquiries, the clerk tabled a return of the cost of metal crushing at Robinson's Bay . The Beard had paid the County Council 32s 6d per day for the hire of the crusher plant. The total cost of crushing G76 yards had been £ll2 Cs 3d. The finance report showed:—Receipts £G -is Gd, accounts for payment £122 19s 10d, dr.

balance Bank New Zealand £691 Us ud; loans account, cr. balance £S2S Oa id, accounts for payment £'2Sl its. Cd. In answer to the chairman the clerk stated that as the overdraft limit was £'lloo the Board had roughly £3BO to work upon ■until the rates came in. After some discussion on the question of repairing the road in Flea, Bay, it was reyolvcd to inform Air P. "Westenra, who had asked for the repairs, that the Board understood the road was on private property. It that were so, the (Board could take no action. Mr Hay ward was deputed to obtain additional labour required on the Uuvauchelle ecction of the roads. Mr Hazlock brought up the matter of explosives U3ed by contractors. He understood there was considerable trouble in a. private person obtaining exploeives required. It would be better for local bodies to store a. supply and retail to contractors as required. On his rnotiqn this suggestion was