ROAD BOARD.

Te Puke Times, 2 September 1919, Page 2

ROAD BOARD.

The monthly meeting of the Te Puke Road-Board was held onl Saturday, there being preaentf Messrs C. Lally (Chairman), S.| Douglas, and J. Witherow. The minutes of the previous, meeting were read and confirmed.* A.letter was : received from the] Statistics Office- acknowledging) the receipt of returns.. 1 The Secretary of the Bay of j. Plenty Development League wrote that the- next conference would be held towards.:the end] , of August-Received. ~ i . Notices " ; of "alteraflohi-an Valuation' Roll were received as? follows .--Harrison to J. A. Cot-j ton, J, Witherow .t0... Harrison,'« Pairlieto R;S.Mutton', r A. arid" P. Association to Farmers' Aoc- > tioneering Co. A notice re transfer from, Abbott to others was referred to the Valuation Department, as the unimproved values had not been shown. . . * On the motion of the seconded by Mr Douglas. )(t was" decided; that' a general 4ate of five farthings in the [& s be] made and on"(the unimproved value of all rateable property in the Road District for the period commencing on Ist day of April; 1919, and ending on the 31st day' of March, 1920, and that the rate be payable at the office of the Board in one instalment on the 14th day of September. I , ■' Mr Douglas drew; the attention of the Board to the state- of the ' culverts on; Road, and also to the quantity of gorse that was growing on' the" roadside. —The matter was held over till the next meeting.

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