NGAIRE-ROAD BOARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Issue 277, 21 July 1882, Page 3

NGAIRE -ROAD BOARD.

A meeting, of the above Board was held on Monday" last; Present: — Messrs. Godkin, Harm, McKay, Panders, Sparkes, Taylor, and Marchant (Chairman. )j The minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed. , t ' : : Accounts were passed for payment ; Kirkpatrick, £15 ; 9TAB,i£6 9s. Messrs. W. P. Taylor and Petersen, waited on the Board, to urge (he need of further drainage and culverling on CheaTlWd'.' After examining the ap. plicante, the Board promised to consider the matters in preparing the estimates. Mr. H. R. Baker wrote to the Board, asking for improvements on Sole Road, j and offering to advanco the money, if it was not at the command of the Board at present. No action was taken, further than adopting the report of the comniitteo appointed to look after tni§ road. Mr. W. L". Gibson, asked for Finncrty Road to be made passable. The work* -Wad placed on the estimates in com* mittee. , Mr. Smaller wrotq, asking the Board to expunge hip name from rate«roll, as owner of section 20, Block 11., as Messrs. Shroder and L'awritgen now owned it. i The Clerk was ordered to make a note in rate-book of Mr. SniaYler's request. Mr. Harm -wished' cis name to bo removed 'as occupying Mr. M. Galvin's .laqd, as he should be > vacating it at the end of the year. Similar instructions to above. The Clerk read a list of forty-eight defaulting ratepayers. , It was unanimously resolved that the Clerk at once summons twelve of them to Hawera. When they are disposed of, another batch to be taken in hand. ; The Board .then considered the estimates brought forward by the different committees, which were all within the mark, and were adopted without alteration, a fact which Bpeaks well for the spirit of fairness so desirable. The amounts are as follows : — Anderson Road, £60'; Cornwall Road, £60 ; Oheal Road, £95 ; Finrierty Road, £26 ; Olimie Road, £120 5 Sole. Boad, £10 ; Skinner and Bird Roads, £120 ; Cardiff Road, £94 ; Waingongoro Road, £27 ; Bracken Eoad, JB10; total, £612., Prom this amount, it was decided tp deduct £50 for contingencies, such amount to be deducted fro data from the different roads. The question of rating was then considered, and Mr. Godkin moved, " That the board give notice of its intention to strike a rate of Is. in the £." Mr. Taylor seconded, and the chairman supported the motion, all three gentle- , men stating that they acted from a sense of duty and because the money was required, and not because they liked -paying money in rates 'any more than their neighbors. Mr. Harm objected- to any rate at all ; settlers making nothing off their land should not have to pay for it, but those who bought for speculation should. He could not At the moment suggest any plan by which this result might be obtained. Mr. 'Sanders moved, as an' amendment, | that the rate be 9d. He thought that that was the most that conld be expected, j and that the land board would allow a fair percentage- for working expenses upon proper courteous representation. The amendment was carried on division, Harm, McKay, Sanders and Sparkes for it ; Godkin, Marchant, and Taylor against. t Mr. Sanders moved, '• That the foreman peg off the work at the two culverts on j Finnerty road." The chairman seconded. Members could not see the Utility of it \intil the expenditure had been approved, when other works could also be proceeded with. Motion lost. Mr. Sanders asked how long it would bo before the schedule would ho approved. Tho chairman said certainly one month, possibly more. : A member thought that the new Land Bill would affect the deferred payment funds; ho would like a copy to be applied for in Wellington: Request negatived. The auditors reported that they had examined the board's books and vouchers up to 31 March, and had found them correct.

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