TEMPLETON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4098, 9 June 1881, Page 4

TEMPLETON.

The ordinary mooting of this Board took place at the Road Board office, Yaldhurst, on Monday last; present — Messrs Bailey (Chairman), Carpenter, Dawson, Franks, and Hepworth. — The business done by the Chairman during the past month was approved, and the following correspondence was read* — From the Manager Union Bank ot Australia, -c interest account, kc. — From tho Railway Engineer's department, in reply, aud asking information in reference to the 80-iid's application for the construction of a level crossing over the Christchurch and Dunedin railway 45 chains south of Hornby Junction. The Olerk waß authorised to act in the matter. — Tenders were then opened for the construction of the following works, viz. : — For the formation of Warder Btreet, with a footpath on each Bide thereof 10ft wide, in the township of Epsom, and also for the formation of the boundary road between this and the Oourtenay district, a distance of about 155 chains, and one accepted in each case. W hen tho latter work is finished the entire length of boundary road from tho South road to the river Waimakariri — a distance of about seven miles — will be completed, and a very desirable object attained for the convenience of the public travelling from south to north. — Mrs Oharles Carter waited on the Board to lodge a complaint against the Poundkeeper's cattle continually straying about and trespassing and thereby becoming a source of great annoyance to the neighbours. Mrs Carter was informed whero her remedy lay. — The same peraon also ma*e application to rent from the Board Reserve No. 327, ten acres. The Board decided, as in former applications, nofc to let any of the reserves in their district until the fences were properly grown. — The Clerk was instructed to write to the Public Works Department, aud mako application for a few more gravel reserves situated and shown on the map in some of the waste lands of tho district. — After some other business of a routine nature, the monthly pay sheet, amounting to £73 14s 6d was adopted and passed, and the meeting adjourned.