HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.
IrROM ocn SPECIAL RErORTEB.) o The first of the ferro-concrete piles for the Hurt pipe tint! trafhc bridge were madoyesteraay. A. Quantity of the -steel reinforcements has ■arrived, and the contractor (Mr. D Bourke) has nine men engaged in the preliminary work. Altogether, 126 concrete pfl«s will I>3 lequired for tlie bridge, and each pile, after being moulded, must bo allowed to lie for at least, two. months before being hhndled. The piles vary in length from Uft. to 30ft.. the whole of them measuring 3347 ft. The piles now being made tiro intended to support the western approach, which is 237 ft. long. Mr.. John Cudby; J.P., presided at a short sitting of'the Lower Hutt police court yesfcerday morning. Harry Robertson was convicted of drunkenness, and was fined 205., in default 4S hours' imprisonment. At the Pet.ono Railway Workshops yesterday, daring the dinner-hour, a presentation was made to Mr. N. M'Ewan, boilermakcr, who is being transferred 'to Palmerston North, the work there having been found .sufficient to warrant the appointment of a permanent boilermaker. His follow-employecs presented him with a handbag, and wished him every success.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 463, 23 March 1909, Page 7
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191HUTT AND PETONE NEWS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 463, 23 March 1909, Page 7
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