PUKEATUA ROAD BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9153, 7 September 1888, Page 3

PUKEATUA ROAD BOARD.

The Pukeatua Road Board held its monthly meeting at the office of the Board, the Dairy Flat School-house, on Saturday, the Ist of September. Present: Messrs. James Inglis (chairman), E. Bond, D. Lochead, T. Foley, and C. Jeffs. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. Tenders were received for the following works, viz. —Contract No. 1, postman's bridge, constructing new bridge : W. Griffiths, £13 15sj R. and A. Thorburn, £14 17s 6d; T. Jells, £13 (accepted). Contract No. 2, putting in three socket glazed pipe culverts, 18 feet long, clearing out drains, etc., on the road leading to Mr. W. Wilson's: E. Blucher, £10; G. Green and Son, £9; R. and W. Brunton, £6 (accepted). Contract No. 3 (near Mr. D. Lochead's), comprising repairs to a culvert and the putting in of an 18-inch pipe culvert 40 feet long, earthworks, etc. : E. Blucher, £26; G. Green and Son, £25; R. and A. Thorburn, £21 (accepted). Contract No. 4, Kennedy's Hill, 15 chains of side cutting and four socket pipe culverts : Griffiths and Ford, £23 2b 4d; E. Blucher, £20; G. Green and Son, £20; R. and A. Thorburn, £18 15s; W. Morton, £14 10s (accepted). Contract No. 5, road-forming, ditching, and culverts, on the road leading to Mr. Foley's : E. Blucher, £15; R. and W. Brunton, £9; John Foley, £3 9s (accepted). A letter was received from Mr. K. N. Hillock, stating that he had no legal road to his farm. The letter stated the complainant had been to the County Council, and they had referred him to the Road Board. He protested against paving any further rates to the Pukeatua Road Board until such time as a passable road was made to his Sunnvside farm. The letter was received, but the Board decided that Mr. Killock must pay his rates. The Chairman stated that there was a legal road from Riverhead, via Cobbler's Hill, to the middle of the creek opposite Mr. Bollock's farm. Mr. Thomas Jeffs was present to request the Road Board to raise the bridge known as "Moyle's." Mr. Jeffs spoke strongly on the subject, and protested vigorously against having to pay rates without being able to get a passable road to bis property. The Chairman said that the present bridge was in a bad position, and as there was very little traffic over it, it would be best to leave it as it is for the present: but if Mr. Jeffs could obtain the consent of the owners of the property above the present bridge to exchange land for a road where a good crossing could be obtained, the Board would be disposed to consider the matter. The Chairman brought under the notice of the Board the fact that the £500 that was voted by the Waitemata County Council some five years ago, to be spent on the main road between Lucas' Creek and the Wade, had never been expended. He stated that the money was not to their credit in the bank, and when inquiry was made at the Council office the only satisfaction that ratepayers could obtain was thai: if the money had not been spent on the road for which it was voted, it had been spent somewhere else. He (the Chairman) considered the present state of the main road was a disgrace to the Waitemata County Council, and referred to the very bad state of the road, especially near Mr. Pointon's. Referring to this part of the road, the Chairman said that a contract had once been let for metalling it, but from some cause it had never been completed. Various accounts were passed for payment, which concluded the business. [Lucas' Creek Correspondent.]