HAWERA ROAD BOARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 55, 20 October 1880, Page 3

HAWERA ROAD BOARD.

Saturday*, October 16,

A special meeting of the Board was held on Saturday, for the purpose of receiving the report of Messrs. Twigg, Morrison, and Rob?on, in reference to the construction, of roads in the lower Ngaire district. Present — Messrs. Hunter (chairman), Robson, Morrison, and Gane. Mr. Twigg, foreman of works, was also present.

BOADS IN THE lOWJSE NGAIRE.

.. The following report from the foreman of works was read :—: —

" According to instructions of the Board, I have been over the Ngaire roads, and find the following wot ks required to allow settlers to get to their land :—: —

"Finnerty road — Bridge across the Mangawherowhero, and about ten chains of side-cutting, which will be on a deviation, to avoid a gully and heavy cutting.

" Conway road — Bridge across the Mangawherowhero, and approaches, which will not be h.avy.

" Road between sections 44 and 47, block X. — Frame culvert and cutting.

" Road between sections 2 and 3, block XIV. — One frame culvert, with heavy cutting and filling; and one box culvert, •with light filling.

"Between sections 9 and 10, "block XIII. — One box culvert and filling.

"Dalziel road — Between sections 12 and 15, block XIII. — Frame culvert and filling — not heavy. Between sections 15 and 19 — Box culvert and light filling. Between sections 22 and 24 — Box culvert and filling, not heavy ; and between sections 22 and 28, block XIII.— Box culvert, -with filling, not heavy.

" Road between sections 30 and 34, block XIII. — Frame culvert, with heavy cutting and filling.

" Boylan roacl — Six gullies will require culverts — two box and four frame, from 30 to 50 feet in length. Filling and cutting, from 400 to 1000 yards in each. At Te Eoti end of Boylan road, there will be about 60 chains of side cutting, mostly light.

lt Ti>© yo&il nSong il>e y&i\Tv&y t Wiweez> hhe Hoylan and Austin roads, w'il\ require a track, clearing of logs, and stumping."

Mr. Gane moved that the report be adopted. The selectors had had a good opportunity of accompanying the foreman of works and the commissioners, and he presumed that as they did not attend after due notice, they had every confidence in the Board. — The motion was carried.

The Chairman said he had written to Captain Wra}', to whose district the lower Ngaire belonged, but had not yet received an answer.

Mr. Gane said he had met Capt. Wray in Carlyle, and that gentleman told him he was in communication with the Government and the Taranaki Land Board, as part of the Ngaire belonged to the new land district, and a part to Tarnnalu.

Mr. Robson thought that, in the meantime, the engineer could get the specifications ready. He would move — That the engineer be instructed to prepare plans and lay out the works to be done on Finnerty road, culverts and filling on Dalziel, Boylan, and Stewart roads, and clearing a track, say 20 feet wide, between ths Boylan and Austin roads. A deviation would be required near Mr. Quin's land, on the Finnerty road, close to Mr Hawke's selection.

The Chairman said that, before any deviations were made, it would be well to ascertain if some arrangements could be made with the owners of the land. He asked Mr. Quin (who was present) whether he had any objection to the deviation ? Mr. Quin replied that he had not given the matter any consideration ; but he would not place any obstacle in the way of the Hawera Road Board or any other public body. All that he would ask would be to get an indemnity for Ms lose.

Mr. Gane seconded the resolution moved by Mr. Eobson, and it was carried.

It was resolved that the chairman should write to the Public Works Department, to ascertain whether the road from, the Boylan rond into Normanby was a gazetted public road; and also to urge upon the Minister of Public Works that proper approaches to crossings should 'be made where cuttings had been done for the railway works.

KATENE ROAD.

The following tenders were received for bush felling and underscrubbing on Katene road : — A. Golding, 7s per chain ; Aikman and Commorie, 7s per chain ; E. McDonald, 10s per chain; and H. A. Clement, 12s per chain. Mr. Golding's tender was accepted.

AMALGAMATION.

Mr. Robson handed in a resolution bearing on the subject of the amalgamation of the lower with the upper Ngaire district ; but the chairman refused to receive it, stating that the meeting had been called for a special object.

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