MAUKU ROAD DISTRICT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9013, 19 October 1892, Page 3

MAUKU ROAD DISTRICT.

Some of the Patumahoe and Springs Road settlers met Messrs. Goldsworthy and W. If. Wright (two members of the Maukußoad Hoard) at the Patumahoe school on Saturday evening, the 15th instant, to discuss the unsatisfactory way in which the business of the Board has been carried on. Mr. W. T. Wright was called to the chair, and opened the business by calling upon Mr. Goldsworthy to explain to the meeting (for the benefit of anyone present who might not be fully informed in the matter) the circumstances that had led up to the present agitation. Mr. Gallagher, the chairman of the Mauku Road Board, attended, and addressed the meeting. He stated that he wished to do what was fair, and also pointed out where the money had been laid out. His explanation did not satisfy the meeting, and he was informed that had the Board willingly granted to the Patumahoe and Springs Road side of the district before this agitation had been started, what Mensrs. Goldsworthy and Wright, with the assistance of Mr. Rowe, had that day obtained, there would not have been any unpleasantness, as Messrs. Goldsworthy and Wright had supported the other members of the Board in all the work proposed by them. Mr. James Finlay strongly advocated a subdivision of the district into wards, but the chairman pointed out that by his reading of the Road Board Act there would be more difficulty and as much expense iucurred in getting a sub-division as a separation. After the meeting had been • addressed by different gentlemen present, it was unanimously resolved, " That steps be taken to secure separation and the constitution of a new Road Board district, to be called the Patumahoe road district, the Karaka ratepayers to be asked to come the proposed new district, as their interests lie more with the Patumahoe side of the district than with the other." The district has already been separated for school purposes, and the meeting felt that a separation for Road Board purposes would prevent bad feeling, and an undue grasping of the rates by either side of the district'in future. A large '-''working • committee was then appointed to carry out the above resolution. The usual vote of thanks brought the meeting to a close.—[A Correspondent.]