HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 557, 12 July 1909, Page 7

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

■';'■ '■■ (From-Onr J3p*cial Seporter.) ,/. '[■ <>>> "'•'". '■'•'•' . '' »'" ■.''■■■.■ .'■"■.■. ;; PETONB SCaOQL (X)MMITTBI3, ;';At Friday nighfe mooting ■. of the Poton* School Committee,'a letter wai received from the secretary of the Education Board stating that the-board, at its'last meeting, resolved to ask tho Minister for Education to sanction - the establishment of a high ecliool at Petone, under Section 24 of the Education Act, on the '. understanding that it will'not lead to tho disestablishment of the high school at the Lower Hutt. Tho board also resolved,to sanction the use of tho present building for high school purposes. An > application for the disestablishment of the district high school is to be scut iij. ' The.Rev. A. Thomson remarked'thai,ivLen-. a high school proper vras established, it Would disestablish the present district high SfliOol. It was decided to inform the board . ibttl a petition hud been sent in containing tho re-.'i quiaito number of signatures, and to oak \hai it be given effec^'to, '■ : ■'. ,' ; V ~ ' ) '■ POLICE COURT RETURNS; : : ■ The Petone Police Coorj; returns for : . the . quarter,ending Judo 30. show that 103 criminal ' summonses were, issued from-the-louel'.pilleo.' 1 office, 57 plaints were entered, and 21 cases veto i ■ brought before tho Court. The segregate amount sued for was" £3H os. !)d., it which, ( £U2 7s. sd. was recovered. On the criminal ■• gido, 80' males and.9 femalesi were Bnmmonod ■ or arrested; 11 of this total were discharged'i for want of prosecution, 4 dismissed on their.' merits, 80 Bummarily convicted, 43 were' fined, and 24 convicted and discharged. Tho amount ', paid in criminal fines amounted to .£l4 ISs, and fines .£22 4s, making a total of £36 17s During the qnarter 10 piohibition orders were issued. BUILDING :IN PETONB. During tho past threo months there has been an increase in building in Petonc. Tho follow" ing table shows the , comparison— New Tees Value Houses £ 6 d £. e d. April 2 4 5 0 1149 5 0 May 3 5 10 0 1300 7 6 June i 5 7 10 0 IS9G 2 0 p ' JOTTINGS. A representative of the Telley's estate trustees paid a visit to Petouo on Saturday in connection with a proposal on the part of the trustees to build a row of shops on the property, wlncli has a largo frontage on Jackson Street. ' The rating question Mill occupy attention at to-night's meeting of tho Petono Borough Cpuncil It is slated that a movement is afoot U havo the motion altering the rate rescinded. Evidence of tho interest being taken in,th* affairs of tho Hutt Borough was given on Friday night, quite a nnmber of prominent citi- * yens attending tho special meeting of the conn-', cil to investigate tho reports submitted. Seat- I ing accommodation could not be found for'all of them Tho Petone borough cnginoor is paying a visit to the KoroKoro to day in order to ascer- _ tain the most advantageous method of expend-1 ing tho jCol (KoroUoro thirds mentioned by Mr. M'Bwan at the unemployed deputation) with reforonoo to providing work for a nuinbei of thq unemplojcd. In uil probability about half-a-dozen' men will bo givenwork' to-mofrov:, On Saturday morning tho Mayor of Pcton* (Mr J. W. Mllwan) presented tho rotmng, postmnstci, Mr E Grcatbatch, with a pureo/ of sovereigns, subscribed bj citizens as a recognition of tho unfailing courtesy uith which lit liad discharged his duties during tho past eight* venn ' ' I Mr E Woslnoy, of the National Brink./ I is still lying ill at Hutt. His conditwv is 'critical; ( ~