Waimumu Road Board.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 17, Issue 17, 13 November 1894, Page 3

Waimumu Road Board.

. A_j»eeijrig j)f the^dnmmu Road Board was held on Thursday last; present-— Messrs Barry, Grieve, Keir, itfutcbV and JiiaoQiUiVray ; Mr Keir in the chaJK ! $he~Taymaßter General wrote informins the Board that the balance of subsidy under the Local Bodies Finance and P<tff -f ? $ett/i?SS had b«(e,n remitted to erwit of <he Board's account «tt the Bnßlt t>fjNt>w "Zealand; Matßura.— Received. 1 ;: .Tb? County k Council infoinied the ' Botfrfi t#at the folluwiuK subsidy would ; be Rented to the Board £ for £, namely, , Gore to Kelvin road, LSO; Gilders road, |i2s.— Revived. , .„ Notice ...was received of the consign»eatn of bird poison ordered being fojward* ,1 Mr G;jEamsay stated in reply to the Board's letter asking him to pay rates on the property lately occupied by one Mr ' J?enfiyj that he declined to do so. On the ' inOfeionol Meßß»Mut<jh and Grieve, the clerk was instructed to again write fr> Mr B^Bay aod inform him that he is reipq^imp Ji^':'"iUf gate's ..and : must pay v ' "Jilr Andrew Maol^onald, Hedgehop*, wrote stating that some yeara ago a creek fanning through sections 19 and 20, Waimumuy bad been diverted from its Bttttral bed to an artificial one on, land belonging to the Xiand Company, which lliji^ejjome choked, and in time of flood the wSiier^injurioaoly a£Eeoted his land »o ! thftt At times he had to remove his stock. He>|ti[ ke,dr the.' fi^oajrd to investigate the ttatter.--Oa tlie motion' of Messrs Mutch indGraeve, Mr Barry and the surfacfeman , were^nppointe4 to,wait on Mr Mac Donald op Saiurday the 17 inst, in regard to the '^t^ .c^mpkined, of • Mr Melland, Dunedin, wrote asking aj^QUt some property in the 4Andhurs£ Hundred, and promised pay rttgs on it as agent for thu mortgagee. f.«>cßec»ived. t Messrs Coomer and Mowat asked the • Board to chip tussock off portion of roadilttjling to Gore; near Me srs Friend and ■' Mowst'i properties. — Begolvtd on the looiiofl of Messrs Mutch and Grieve th|t tmsjarfaoematt report the matter at fwt meeting: Jfif Grah^ni, on behalf > of,h.imseljF and pl(heJ«|i wr^teaiking the Boari^ (to repair tw Toaids,;in; the district, seeing the jOo^yvfiouaoil bave promised to submdiie,—Bsceirc4. Mr A. Maokay waited on the Board . wgardiugt-a culvert between sections 14 and 15,ijindhur8t.*— The matter was left for Mr Barry and the surfaceman to report on. ' Meslrs Barry and £>ir moved that MataUra-JBußby Park read, Gore-Eelvin TOad and Gilder's road be repaired with ' ftaictenance gravel to the extent of I^.oo on, eaqh of the two main roads and L 66 on Gilder's road, and that the suriiu'emao, be .empowered to employ rate* payers' ; Wtims, if available, to do the jroriurrtCarried. Messrs Keir and Grieve moved that the sum of -HO be expended in ditching <tk*< road leading through Hall and Minon's bleck.—Carried. The snrfawraan was: instruct? ' to fep' rt an to Mr Mciiwraith's road at next meeting. $Ie clerk was instructed to write to ij[r M^cdpn-ild, manager at Edendale, re jates ou. {ahd iatriy occupied by one Mr . .Ptf»nj| and i necessary to sue for them >lst;>4ra*-al«<> ; mscruoted to wiitd to Mr FleicheJ 1 , Gore, respecting rates owing by him or his. tenant) and to request immediate payment ; and also to intimate to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Inver* j eargiU,that rates on the following perpet^al ieaaehold sections were in arrear, '■ atsbely, James Mackay, section 18, block Vj -W. fitvjntosft section 9, block 1; M. A. McK«Dzie, B6otion 7, block 1 ; and W. Bmitb^ part of license 26$g Waimumu Hundred. _ ,> On the.metion of Messrs Mutch and .ori^feV|.t^e following accounts were passed .for payment i — Surfacemen, Ll7 17f Bdi piisa, stamps, etc., L 5; Dola. Lore Bros., LI lOs ;"J. G. Ward Co., L 3 0* 6dj F. Powell, L 3. The clerk was instructed to have the meetings of the Board iv future, when thWW was business to dispose of, on the same days as the live stock sales.