NORTH-EAST HARBOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 1162, 7 March 1874, Page 20

NORTH-EAST HARBOUR.

A meeting of the road ratepayers of the North-east Harbour Subdivision was held in the schoolroom on the evening of the 28^h February, to take into consideration a proposal by the Peninsula Road Board to borrow £700 for the purpose of improving the Beach Road. There was a good attendance of ratepayers, and Mr Christie was called to the chair. It was then moved by Mr Sim, and seconded by Mr George Anderson, "That, inasmuch as a large portion of the Beach Road within the North-east Harbour District has not yet been formed, and inasmuch as £700 would go only a little way towards this result; and still further, as it would be quite unreasonable to improve the road at one end while those at the other extremity of the district may be for years without any road at all— while they would thus be taxed for the benefit of others ; therefore this meeting is of opinion that no such loan ought to be contracted, and further, that no loan ought to be contracted unless on the understanding that it be a sum sufficient to make and metal the entire line of road along the NoHjh-ea«t Harbour District, so that all may reap the same benefit." This motion was carried unanimously. There being a unanimous feeling on the part of the meeting that the making of the Beach Road, in the first instance, pertains to the Government, it was agreed that a deputation be appointed to wait on the Government, and urge the necessities of the case, on the ground that the local rates are quite insufficient for such an undertaking in connection with the district roads, which would require all the rates at their disposal. With this view, the followingparties were appointed to wait on the Superintendent at their earliest convenience — viz., Messrs Christie, Sim, and Cassels. A deputation was also appointed to wait on the Peninsula Road Board, consisting of Messrs Christie, Kilgour, Anderson, and Roger, to represent the views of the meeting on the sxibjoot of the proposed loan, and also to request that the Road Board will use their endeavour to clear off the slips, and repair the water-tabies on the Beach Road, so that it may be kept open for traffic.