WAIMATE ROAD BOARD.

Timaru Herald, Volume X, Issue 385, 3 February 1869, Page 2

WAIMATE ROAD BOARD.

A meeting of (he above Hoard' was held at Wai mate on Monday, (be 25th ult. On the motion of Mr Buckley, Mr Studholme wa9 re-eleuted Chairman. The minutes of tho lust meeting were read and coiifiruied. The following letters wore read: — From the .Resident Magistrate, granting permission to Uie Board to hold meetings iii Court-houae. - '. From the Secretary for Public "Works, of the iMtli ult., stating that £25 for the collection of agricultural statistics was lying m the treasury to the credit of the Board. From the Secretary for Public Works, of the sumo date, stating that £125, being 25 per cent: of grant of-. £500, would by payable after the lat January, 1869. A memorial, with 69 signatures, was read, praying the Board to make tho road near tho' beach, boiweou the Otaio and Pareora, and to form the whole length of road between /those, rivers • also/to drain uud rn'iHal tlioße portions of road already formed between Waimato and otaio. .:;;:/ :..■ . On the motion of Mr Buckley, it was resolved— "That i the> Eugiueer prepare plans and estimates of road necessary to be made; along the railway-reserve between, the Otaio and Pareora;' and 'also, approximate ' estiniut.'s of what is necessary to be done on the main roads between Otaio and Waitaki before: April next." ■ Various sums having been passed for payment, the meeting adjourned. \