PUKEKUEA ROAD BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13170, 7 May 1906, Page 3

PUKEKUEA ROAD BOARD.

The Fukckura Road Board met on Thursday la&t.

there being present: Messrs. R. Fisher (chairman), R. Reynolds, J. Anderson, .1. Kelly, and K. Mor.rison. A special meeting was first held to confirm a resolution making an annual recurring rate of one-sixth of a penny in the £ to meet the interest and sinking fund in connection with the Board's share of -the cost of the Cambridge high level bridge. The ordinary meeting was then held. Accounts totalling £91 18s lid were passed for payment. / The chairman said he had not yet heard whether the Board's application for a loan for the high level bridge had been granted. He had , hopes, however, that they would be successful. The annual meeting followed, but no other ratepayers attended. The balance-sheet,, which .was read and adopted, showed the total receipts as .£899 14* and the expenditure £617 fa lid. The credit balance in the bank and in hand amounted to £282, which, with the Government'subsidy, left over £300 to come and go on. The Chairman said he thought 12 months ago that the Board would have been able to do without a general rate, but lie now saw that was impossible, as the requirements of the district were increasing. Mr. Fisher was unanimously re-elected chairman. Mr. Fisher returned thanks and referred to the harmonious way in which the members of the Hoard had worked iot-ether daring the past year. Mr. 11. Fitzgerald was reappointed clerk and treasurer. The-members also sat during the afternoon as a Cambridge West Domain Hoard. Mr. N. Altwood applied for the lease of an unused reserve* He offered a nominal rental and agreed to keep it clear of pois-e, etc. It was resolved that the Board inspect the reserve. In connection with the lease of its reserves, the members thought that, in future preference should be given to those persons who now pay their rents promptly.