Mount Feel Road Board.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4911, 21 January 1889, Page 2

Mount Feel Road Board.

A meeting of the board was held in the road board office, Peel Forest,, on Friday, the 18th instant, The members present were the Hon. J, B. A. Acland (chairman), Messrs 0. GK Tripp, E. Mackay, and Er. Qhew. The following correspondence was read and dealt with From the Minister of Public Works etating that the Public Works having been abolished, arrangements have been made for road undertakings hitherto performed by that department to be performed by the Crown Lands Department in future, and that all communications relating to roads or other local undertakings be addressed to the Hon. the Minister of Lands accordingly. From the Tiraaru Hospital furnishing names of additional patients treated in the hospital during the month of December. From Mr H. McMaster asking 'permission to erect a gate across the road leading up the Orari Q-orge.—Permission was granted upon the usual conditions. From the Property Tax Office, Wellington, informing the board that a voucher had been forwarded to the Treasury for the payment of rates due on Crown lands. From Mr J. Talbot, giving his views upon matters connected with the Timaru Harbour Board.

The several clauses of the Public Works Act Amendment, proposed to be brought before Parliament next session, were discussed, when the following suggestions were proposed : “That section 10 seems very arbitrary, especially in cases where lands abut upon a river, as in many cases in the South Island, gorse has been washed down the rivers, and has rooted on spits and islands, spreading seed far and wide. In such cases the enforcing of this clause would be the ruin of many owners, unless the Government first take the question up and destroy off all the various plants, and then call on owners to keep the land clear. “ That County Councils and Boad Boards should have power to expend their funds in buying or leasing land for the purpose of experimenting with water for irrigating same. Such money to bo first voted by the ratepayers, the voting to bo the same as for water districts.” The overseer was directed to attend to the following :—To give notice to Mr S. Hue to remove a fallen gum tree from the Scotsburn and Peel Forest road adjoining his land, and to grub up the gorse growing on the same road. To give notice to Mr E. Evans to grub gorse from the road in the Bangitata river bed adjoining his land. To have the stones and tussocks picked off the road from Tripp’s cutting and Bitchie’s corner, and across the Orari river bed. To repair the cutting near Bitchie’s house, and lower the ford to take the flood water from Mr Denniston’a paddock. Accounts to the amount of £SO 10s 3d were passed for payment, after which the board adjourned.