PENINSULA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 36

PENINSULA.

monthly meeting of -the Peninsula i^Road "Board- was held at Portobello on Saturijday, 28tK ult.; present — Messrs J. Dickson ((chairman), Macandrew, Shaw, Hellyer, jWright, M'Cartney, Bacon, and Seaton. Messrs I).' Bacon and W. Hislop appeared re Toads m >3ifargate Township which were dealt with. Park and Simpson appeared on bejfealf of the trustees of Mr J. Smith re -roads pn^Waverley Township, asking the board! to raSaine" the required width of the streets. It iwks resolved that the board's inspector meet j4h'e trustees and go over all the roads in the itbvmship. The inspector reported ,on. behalf. Pof'.'Mr H. V. Fulton (Vauxhall, that the zoad -leading to his dwelling required ditches !2nd metal for about three-chains. -It was iiesolved that the work be- undertaken, projyided' 'Mr . Fulton assisted -in the "matter. JJTeilders- ior- .supplying metal >. at ,'Hooper's Snlet were opened, and that of Mr J. Smith, ?b'ang the lowest, was accepted for, Mr DuckImanton's < quarry, while that of _Mr t R<-.Har-pSgoodt. was, accepted for-.the limestone}. quarry v Wuxf'j. Hooper' was appointed ranger. The ' inspector reported that the late rains had sW,ocked the following roads with slips: — pfain road between Portobello and S. Gill's Inlet), west side; Macandrew's §-pa 3, Wickliffe Bay. The .last-named road was pitill blocked, but the former was opened for UrafficT The floods had done a great " deal *f damage by causing landslips." ti&K'VZ — " -