From Mr. Jas. Carlton, consenting to accept the terms offered by the Board as final payment on Gorse Fence road and Tramway road. The Board decided to pay Carlton according to their previous offer.
From Messrs Ford and Ogden, inclosing price list of pipes. The Board decided to call for tenders for the supply of pipes for 12 months, to be delivered at Mount Somers.
From the Ashburton County Council in reply to a letter from the Board with re ference to subsidising cost of Alford Bush roads, and requesting to be furnished with estimates of costs of formation. The Surveyor was directed to forward esti mates, and also the amounts of the tenders accepted for Sawmill road and Boyd’s road.
From the same, advising the Board that the sum of L 2,441 Is. 6d., being the Board’s share of the impounded land fund, has been paid in to the credit of the Board’s account. From the same, enclosing accounts for the Board’s promised contribution towards the cost of the bridges over the North and South Ashburton rivers, and also over Taylor’s stream. From the same, re the shortening of South Ashburton Bridge. From Mr. C. Pei’cy Cox (as agent for the Union Insurance Company), with reference to the insurance of the Road Board house and stable.
