RATEPAYERS' MEETING AT MEANEE SCHOOL-HOUSE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4908, 7 May 1887, Page 2

RATEPAYERS' MEETING AT MEANEE SCHOOL-HOUSE.

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The. great interest taken by the ratepayers in this district in Road-. Board matters had the result of producing jit the above meeting on Thursday an ■ attendance • of'just "nine," 'whick inolnded- fottf. members of the Bbardj andthe clerkl>* r •■■' - The following report was 'read •—'Gentle-,. men,--During the'past year, the Board Mas held sixteen meetings, ( and the attendance of the members has been as follows : Messrs Orr 14, Stothart 14, Drummond 12, O'Shannassy 11, Hislop 10, Marshall 6, Martin 5. The Board commenced the , present year with a credit balance of £174* 18s Bd, which makes tHe revenue fdr the.year reach the/Bumjbf, £753 16s 9d. The expenditurehaVflmduJiiifJato £770 Is 2d, leaving a credit 'balance of £43 15s 2d. The most important,; wdrkacarried' out during': the ..past.- year,,- ; arej as follows: In >:the : Taradale c Wardy/ Church-road has",received considerable at-* . tentionyihe amount of £55 Is 7d having been expended on that-road. and dray work, independent of surface' labor. Hawkins'-road has been re-formed at a cost of £19 19s. .The Boiling-down- ' road has been formed at a, cost of £9 12s 6d, ■ while tho amount'spent on surface labor in the Ward has been £26 15s 6d. Meanee Ward.—ln this Ward Brazil-road has been formed .»t a cost of £37 7s; France-road formed, the cost being £21 "4s; -Tanneryroad has cost fcr metalling £46 165, : and for improvement to formation £14- 17a; the drain near the township has been' cleaned out at a cost of £13 2s 6d, one-third of which cost has been refunded by' the Hawke's Bay County Council; the cost of surface:- labor in this. Ward has been 6d. The chiefworker earned out in the Papakura Ward'have been metalling about 46 J chains in. the Main-rood, cost £59 13s Id ; metalling Donnelly-road/ £32 11s 7d; formation in Brookfield-road," £14 16s 9d; metalling Brobkfield-road, £22-9s 7d; formation of the Boundary-road,; between'the Meaneo ; and Clive districts, a¥ a cost of £40 19s, one half'of which' has been borne by the Clive Road Board: the amount of £34 13s has been paid for surface' labor in this Ward. Through the formation of the Taradale town district the Meanee road district has been considerably reduced. The Meanee ■ and l Papakura Wards remain the same, but the present Taradale Ward is only about one third ite former size, and will in future be represented! by only one member? On'thefomiationtofthe , Taradale Town Board, this Board handed over the sum of £56 9s 2S as its share of the funds then in hand, agreeing to pay'over a further sum of £18, as soon ac the whole of the rates are collected, together with a portion of the Government 'subsidy? The Balance-sheet of the Board is placed before you, which deals fully with the amounts expended under the different headings, "which the J?oard trusts will meet with your approval, and has the honor to ask you' tb adopt the same." ■ ■■' ' • '; ~ ,/i. Mr Rymer aeked if all the members named in the report had held office during the whole yean .' ' / ■ ■ /• .; The Clerk replied. they, had not, Messrs Drummond, Martin; and' : O'Shannassy;* having retired on the formation of the* Taradale Town Board. Mr" Drummond, Trhile a member of the Board, had attended every meeting,'while the attendances of the other members had been gooaV . ' • ■• - ■' The balance-sheet was then read, together with a statement of''assete and liabilities Mr Rymer asked- to" be ' informed what amount had been spent in the Meanee Ward ■between'Powdrell'e ?. .' ; '■' ."•■ :;.■' Mr Monteith remarked that it could be expected that either the Board or *£he clerk could state at a moment's notice the amount of ''expenditure: on. any, particular' portion of the Ward.;.-. The Clerkjstated thatihe ■ was under,, the impression that very little, if any, moneyhad been spent on the.portion named by Mr Rymer.'* < ■>:*.'. .-, . ..:>*■':,»,, ~ *"* The Chairman stated that iudfo yraa i&&, case, but the few roads-in that portion of the Ward were thoroughly metalled about two years ago, and. •were.now in excellent condition, and:he was certainly in ;.favbr': of spending the money where'inost'r'equired. Mr Rymer considfered, iif' the portion he named did not require any expenditurei the. rates should not be' collected. ~ ■ Mr Orr asked the clerk-, to read the balance-sheet ■ for the Meane&jWasrdy to' show -what had been expended in. tke whole Ward. The request vfas responded fa>, when the receipts/.where showii'.to, b&:£l46 5s 6d» andthe 'expenditure £193 12s 3d, '•. leavingthat Ward in debt to the amount of £47 6sßd. •••■ : :.:.,.:•■:

The:repart andbalance-sheef.Trere then adopted, and the meeting adjourned.