EXCESSIVE VALUATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 3055, 9 July 1884, Page 2

EXCESSIVE VALUATION.

Mr Thomas Laogdon interviewed tl.e Bo ml m reference to the amount of atset.'ment of lani m bijoocupntion. The Board ■idini'ted the injustice, Hit. li.-.d no power to make «ny Alteration this year hut would Uko steps towards Retting the Ac' amended to tuit gush «i»es. BegotveS— -" Th»t. Ihfl MemW for Glud-ptorie'-be naVcd to endeavor to ge! pow. r to modify m rases whern exrefßive va'uat.'onß fall upon tenants to pay instead of the proprietors." OVEBSBBtt'S BEPOET. Thn Overseer's report was read as follows : — " In accordance with th" resolution of last meeting, T haie the honor to report »b follows:— " Tendera were rn'lcd for repairs to Cffpps and Tuit'e road, nrd opened by thn Chnirman. Five tenders were received, and that of George Croiier, for £11 9», was nccep'ed. I also caller! for tenders at the Bnme '.time for carting 200 ynrds of broken mslal on to the hill leading to Otipuft, as it would soon have become importable. Four, tenders were received, an*i thot of Hughes and Endgers, at illd per yard, was accepted. " Owing to the severe froat and wet m the early part of the month the roads were very much cut op and require constant attention, especially m the Totara Vnlley, there being a larre emount of grain still to corns down; " Mr Tnman'» road, on thn Albtiry tide, hns been repaired, but it oin never be mndn fi 1 for winter .traffic, unless it is mettlled tbo wholo length, i. being ou the ehady side of the hill. " I hnyfl had fho hill leading fnm Mr Rbes's fo Saltwater Crook, shingled with bench shingle, a* we have.no broken metal on hand, and if the wet. and frost hud continued, it would Boon have been impassable. "The rfad applied for by Capps and Tu.| is being proceeded with." " The mads through Sandietown will require at leaet 150 yards of bench shingle, os the hill" are quite bare. I would recommend that tenders ho called. " The mad from Washdyke bridge to tHe Levels, also portions of tbo Main Temulia Road require immediate repairs. Prom the Washdyko bridge to the junction of the Point rood requires a coat of shingle the whole width of the road, there being a large amount of trffie there, on the sale days. "The hill; Just abovn Mr Perry's gate i» very bad, having become very uneve-i on the surface. I cannot fen hovr it can he repaired nrlsai the. whole surface is picked tip and levelled, and n fre«h coat of metal put on, " The L»vel« Vnl!rv mud. from the foot of the hill near the rl an(a '' orl to Kinnehan's oorner, requires draining and reforming, the floodß having taken most of the shingle off, and the side drains are all filled up. "Ohablbb Wbioht, " Overseer." It wag resolved to shingle the toads through Sandietown as soon bs the new* rates come m; the repair* to the road from the Washdyke bridge to the Levels, and thr shingling of tbe portions of Main North B ad mentioned were authorieed to be done ; the repairs to the bill above Mr Perry's w. ro authorised to be done when the rates come m ; and the Overseer was instructed to report at next meeting on the oost of making good the Levels Valley road. Tbe accounts presented were then passed, and the meeting terminated.