ANNUAL MEETINGS OF ROAD BOARDS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5578, 8 January 1879, Page 6

ANNUAL MEETINGS OF ROAD BOARDS.

RICCAETON. The annual meeting of ratepayers of this district was held on Monday at the office of the Board, Upper Bicoarton. ' Mr H, J. flail, chairman of the Board, presided. A largo number of ratepayers were present. The Chairman read the balance-sheet and Statement of the receipts and expenditure for the past year, duly audited and certified by the district auditor. The receipts were as follows:—Balance from lost year, £6593 8a; Government grants and subsidies, £2255 19s sd; rates, £630 7s 5d ; contributions, £l5O 4a 8d; interest on current account, £3OB 4s 3dj other sources, £2O 16s 6d. The expenditure was—Contracts, Ac., on roads ana drains, £3202 6s lOd j plant, materials, and general expenses, £449; salaries and office expenses, £256 2s 8d; leaving a credit balance of £6052 10a 9d, of which sum £4500 was at a fixed deposit. The statement of assets and liabilities was as follows-Assets, £7702 10s 9d ; liabilities, £419 6s; estimated credit balance, £7283 5s 9d. The Chairman made an explanation of the action of the Board with reference to the formation of the toads through the Biccarton estate, showing that the rates leviable on that

mmld conritobfr »~od tb« actual cost expressed their di»o Mh^ 7 acUun of the Board in the approval following resolution vnu pro* m»“f r V T M r Ford and seconded bj Mr ff'lt-‘‘That before entering upon any ” r i!ork« Mich as the forming or metalling n fTe* private roads, a meeting of ratepayer* u to consider the same. ml ml epavere objected to the resolu* • SeT^ iiS‘it to be tantamount to a vote TiSc on the Board, though the mover , , was not hit intention. eonsidcrable discusiion the following proposed by Mr Kuddenklau "TiidhrMr Amy.:-"That in the JW ef* public money on new road* sKed through private property, one-halt be borne by the owner* of *uch amendment was declared to be earned. v r Matson proposed that the B«ount* a* , Jetted bo accepted and pawed, wkch wa* by Mr Amy* and earned unaniBK Wr l \nv said he conridered the salary of the Survevor quite insufficient, Mtheworkof £ district bad considerably increased. He vld propose the following resolution,— rrhai it le a recommendation to the mcomffßoanl to increase the Surveyor’* *alary.’ RVM*t-«o» said he had much pleasure in j' r , (bo resolution, as he considered the to the Board to be a moet energetic carried unanimously. TV t’haimian said the next buainoss wa* ihe nomination and election of three members i serve on the Board in place of Messrs Bos* Xnnweek, and Deans, who retire by r °Ur ll B. Johnstone said he had much in proposing a rote of thanks to the r.-.i’f.ibens, which was seconded by Browne and carried unanimously. 1 The following gentlemen were then nomi* msdidate* to fill the vacancies of If vtiricc members:—Mr H. Nunweek, ,rv*fd bv Mr Drury, and seconded by Mr {toil: sir jmnes Feather, promised by Mr juddeaklau. and funded by Mr N«oll | v. B.is- proposed by Mr Johnstone, and igf by Mr Matson j Mr Stanley, pro* Mr Drury, and seconded byMr IVKcr; ’Mr Deans, prowwed by Mr H. P. Gnr, and seoendedby IfcLT. fcord. Toe Returning Officer called foe a show of Kinds, which resulted as follows .—Nunweek, Lather, 15; Bosg, 31 1 Stanley, 27} I roil was demanded by Messrs Sudden* Vw td Xicholl on behalf of Mr Feather, which wasuken at once, and the result was « follow. -Nunweek, 242; Boag, 229; ctanlfT 140; Feather, 119; Deans, 108. *■ fjj/ ;r.g Officer declared Messrs Vuawwi,' Boag. and Stanley, duly elected of the fiiccarton Bead Board. Each candidate briefly addressed the ratepavers, thanking those who voted for them. * \ TO tc of thanks to the Returning Officer was proposed bv Mr Fun week, and seconded by Mr sutdif'and the proceedings terminated. SPREYDON. A meeting was held at the Boad Board office, Lincoln road, for the purpose of receiving ncminaUoni of candidates for membership on the Boad Board—the proceedings being conducted by Mr Joseph Richards, the retaining officer. Only three ratepayers were present, Mr J. 8. Buxton proposed Mr J. 8. M. Jacobsen, who, being a practical man, was fully entitled to the confidence of the rate* payers. The nomination wag seconded by Mr Elkanab 'Wilkinson. Mr J. T. Bell explained that Mr H. J. Tan erect, the former member, was not able to be present He (Mr Bell) bad agreed to propose Mr Tancred, and had now much pleasure in dome to. That gentleman had been moet serviceable as a member of the Provincial Council and of the Boad and Drainage Boards, and seemed to have the interest* of the district at heart. Mr Buxton would second the nomination pro forma. He considered Mr Tancred an eligible candidate, but at the same time he I held that a practical man would be far preferable to one who had no technical knowledge. Mr Jacobsen, however, preferred to appeal to the ratepayers on his merits. Mr Bell demanded a poll on behalf of Mr Tancred. A poll wiß accordingly be taken at the Boad Board office on Thursday, Jan. 16, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. EICCABTON BOAD BOARD. A meeting of this Road Board was held on Monday, immediately after the annual meeting of ratepayers, warn Mr H. J. TTal| was unanimously re-elected Chairman for the en* *uing year. Mr Hantman waited on the Board and complained of the inconvenience experienced by him in consequence of the work being carried on by the Sydenham Borough Council on the boundary portion of r Nam man baring re* tired, the Board considered the matter, and «t wa. resolved—" That this Board is of opinion tnat the Sydenham Borough Council u cannng unnecessary inconvenience to the °T ftiaidUtrici on tbo north-west Si’ t 7j L s ßwla n * d b J works carried out !lr r n Cu J ela . r > *nd recommend immediate Marn- t to bis Worship the