WAIPAWA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12854, 5 September 1904, Page 4

WAIPAWA.

[own correspondent.] We are in a bad way for doctors. Dr Reed was called away_ to bydney to see his mother, who is seriously ill. Dr Godfrey has poisoned his hand and is confined to his room. Dr load is on his way to England. The con.sequence is that all the work has devolved on Dr Ross, including that at the Hospital. Mr J. H, Bull, headmaster ot the District School, returned from Wanganui on Thursday night, and on Inday proceeded to Gisborne, where Ins father has died there at the age of oil VGtITS. The Waipawa Road Board .met on Saturday. The correspondence included the new valuation roll. The Treasury forwarded £4 7s Id as subsidy. Mr H. Baker wrote regarding the diversion of road on Abbotsford run to join the road to the Brow. The North Ruataniwha Road Board asked what the board intended to do about striking a rate. Mr H. Beyers forwarded a strongly-worded protest against the board’s action at the previous meeting, when a letter signed by a number of Argyll settlers, asking that the road to Argyll, known as Wilk’s-road, be opened, was considered to bo a petition, and refused because the signatures were not witnessed. It was resolved that the letter be received, and that Mr Beyers be informed that the petition referred to, besides not being initiated, was signed by a large number of persons not in the board s district, who were not ratepayers. The board, however, recognised that the forming and metalling of the road in question was desirable, and steps were taken at the same meeting to ascertain the position of the road, and the board's intentions wore not in the direction of refusing to make the road, as suggested by Mr Beyers. The clerk was instructed to write to the North Ruataniwha Road Board to the effect that the board were proceeding with the preliminary survey of Wilk’sroad, and asked the North Ruataniwha hoard’s approval, as a portion of the road is in their district, which had to be defined; as soon as the details were to hand, the Waipawa board.purposed submitting them for the North Ruataniwha board’s approval, and in the meantime would be pleased to learn that the latter board would bear a share ot the preliminary expenses, proportionate to the length of road falling within their boundaries. It was also decided to inform Mr Baker that Mr W. H. Rathbone would be ready to see him as to laying Wilk’s-road deviation any day from the 18th to 24th instant. In the matter of the County Council’s suggestion as to striking no rate, the only motion was one by the Chairman for a rate of |th of a penny in the £, which was carried. It was stated that the valuation was £42,170, which would produce £65 17s lOd. The bank account was stated in credit £67 18s lOd, and accounts totalling £8 19s 8d were passed for payment.