HUTT AND PETONE NOTES

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 7

HUTT AND PETONE NOTES

(From Our .Special EoporterO r —6 , - FACING THE RATEPAYERS. Members oUhe Hntl YaJlay Traonray Board met the ratepayers a? liower ttatti in. the Town Hall , last night and explained to them tho propesftls for floating a lean of for tho puqjoso bf laying down a tramway in the ■valley in aoeordanco with th 4 scheme prepared by the hoard Mr. J. W. MTlwan, chairmaji of tho,board, presided, and spoke at length on the project and its chances of success. A great deal of questioning then took place, Messrs. WEwaii Knd 1 Kawthorn repljifts to (inestions os to the likohhood of , the ttanis paying. COTOT, A wttlng of the Petone Mfigwtrate'e Court was held- ■yesterday tnormng, Dr. M'Arthnr, S V[,, presidinK, and having bqside him on the benoh,Mr. W.'lnglle, J.PFor riding a bioydle segligently on tho Hntt T?oad, George Olaftrtbuck was fined 10s, ond lls,\ costs, iA default 48 hoars' imprisonntent. Albert Edward -Sgwor pleaded guilty to a charge of entonnp licensed premises during tho ourrency of a prohibition order, Hβ was fined 2Ck,', and 6a. wsie, in defatdt Mven days* im< i • ' % Recently two young jnett came tp Court oharging,each other with assault. Both cases were dismissed, bnt, on tho ovidonco given during the Sergeant Foster laid informations ngainst the young men—l'Vank Lowry and Albert JfKeon—charging them with using obscene Innenage Tho information against Lowry ■wai But.Jl'Keon was convicted and fined 203, and 95., in default seven days , ! impiieonihentt^

<'- > PLATFORM HABITOES. P«tone railway, p'atfonn, for eorao thne before the departure! of tho last tram for wpuingion on Sunday night, is invariably crowded. There ,is a large number of passongers, hut there, are many more who merely BO to tho station to soo a friend oil or havu a Httle excitement. These people, by obstructing, intending passengers, delay the dopartnre of the tram, and tho station ofijcialt have consequently decided ,thnt £h future Sunday nights none but those having shall belpenmtted to go on to the platform. ,'/ A PENCHANT Someone with a Dcnchstnt for bicycles has been - at work in Petone sud Lower Hhrtt lately. last week Mr. Sharp, of Stake's Valley, ■" left his oyele in Campbell Terraco, Petono, and it ■*» stolen Noit day it was found at the sterJbanl near th« gasTrorke with one tyre tnivjjaj and other parts i damaged. The other day, also, Mr. Ayson, of Loner Hutt, had his bicycle stolen. Later, the machine was fonnd tvt tho bottom of Jackeon Street, Petone, with a tyre and cover and several nuts missing.

* ' "A TOTAL STRANGER." . A man, charged at Peiocs Magistrate's Court yesterday with committing a breach of a prohibition order, offered Its as exouso that a man had given him a little whisky and it had'gone to his/head. "What ns the name of, the man?" asked Dr. M'Arthnr. "I don't kiioir;" replied defendant, "he was a total stranger to me." "I thought so," remarked his .-Worship. "Have yob got any more likely etones? Total 6tranfr«r 'shouted' lor yon, ind*ed! I don't find them 'ahoating , for mo." '