DISTRICT NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, 16 November 1916, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS

SUBURBAN NORTH.

The monthly meeting of .the Suburban North Roadl'Board: was held on the 10tb iOst, at the hall. Fresent: Messrs "WY H. Aiboroughi (chairman), A. Dodson, (treasurer)," J. Corder, E. W. Frost, A. Stagg, and B. F. Weller. Accounts were (passed for payment arnounitifng to £6l 16s 103. The overseer's report of work done and required was read. He had had) a, good' deal of work done on the roads, patching and 1 repairing. Nearly _ all the <roads hod! been put in ' order since the July flood, but the flood this month 'had done as much damage as the former one. He had iput on all the imen he could) get to clear sligs and repaid' damages on) the roads that he had had time to visit since the flood. He had 1 had .the road widened opposite Mr Stagg's as ordered last meeting. On. the road leading up to Mr Lucas's, Todd's Bush. slips required' to be removed, and l some patchinig as soon as he could get a team for the work. Mr C. H. Alborough! wished 1 the Board to 'Have the piipe culvert opposite 'his iplace taken up and replaced 1 with a bridge, as the culvert would not take the -water in flood time. Coiiresipiondence was read as follows: From) the Waimea County Council, asking the cha 4 irman's signature for the Government subsidy. Fromi the Lands Department, as to thirds accrued) to September 30th, 1916, amounting to £3 0s 6d, for the Board's approval. , that the matier of the culvert opposite Mr C H. ATborough's ,be held over till about February or March, and that the culvert be replaced with a concrete bridge. Resolved, that the action ofl the overseer with regard 'to the dayman for the Cable 'Bay road be endorsed. Applications for daymen' for the folloxvirug sections of /roads were opened. When) imore than one atriplication was receVed for one section dt was decided to 'ballot for the same. Appointments were mad« as follows :—Section 1, Bedson's VaUey (two aon-Mcntions), A. Dodson; section 2, Todd's Valley .(two applications'), C. H. Aiboroughi; section- 3, Glen roadi (two applications). Alborough brothers; section 4. I>ud roads (three aprrications). D. Anderson j section, 5, Teal roads, E. G. Westley; section 6, Waugamoa, A. G. Dencker.