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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 316, 1 October 1908, Page 6

The Hutt Valley Tramway District Bill was yesterday reported by U.>e Local Bills Committee with amendments'. The elauscs providing for the payment of salary to the chairman of the board and fees to the members for attending the meetings - have been struck out, and-a .clause, restricting such, payments to actual travelling expenses lias been substituted. All the - betterment clauses have been deleted. The ..clauses giving tho board power to erect a destructor ana deal with refuse, as well as Clause 54 enabling it to form and . manage a rec-r?a'ion ground, wero struck out. In regard to tho general rate, 2{d. in the £ on the unimproved valuo has been substituted for Is. in tho £on tho annual value,-or six fart lungs in the £ oil the capital value. Sinking f;;ml3 on the board's loans arc to be £1 por cent, instead of 10s. per cent. " • . v ' Tho question of Wellington winds up several times at a mutiny of ddrgutci of the Wellington Rugby I'miiih last evening, and another injustice was don«. th« Queen City of tho North, One stxikyt, who professed, a knowledge of Rlue .-Books,, hazaided tho opinion that tho,records showed that they had moro gales ro Auckhiud in a year than we do ,in .Wellington, \