HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 673, 25 November 1909, Page 8

HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

_,Tho. fortnightly meeting of the Lower. Hutt Borough Council,was held last uight. I'resent: The Mayor (Mr E. ,P. Bunny), Councillors Baldwin, Macaskill; - Barlow, -Clere, Anson JUowbray, Pearce, .and .Kempthorne. ■ i ■' Mr.. J. Scholes wrote, pointing' out .that." the dram m White's Erne ls.tt'fee! from'his 'side of.the.road,, and he therefore asked for tion from payment of the full amount'of, the cost of .laying the_ connection to i the\drain.The. council decided .that, in; future, a uniform charge of 355. bo made for drainage connections irony .the; uiain to the . boundary. ■.. : An application; by three residents of Nikau Avenue for, a-gas main, to be laid -in '.'that"street.was granted, the cost of laying the , main to be charged to the gas. account. : • The Te. Momi Land Company; vvrote, regarding drainage, in reply" to a-previous letter of the council's/and referred' to the 'bond' entered' into ,-mth the council, to the effect that the council ls-to do the draiqage work , in the 1 first Place, and charge ' the' company with' the cost after the ■ same' has •'been Carried- but—The council agreed '.that this was correct. ■ -, ■'■■' iMessrs. J.' and D. Keir returned an account■ 12s. for , repairs to WainurHill Road, and declined to recognise liability for tho same It was therefore decided to place the account in the. 'hands of the. borough solicitor; ■■■••.■ A dqnation of £10 was' made to the , funds of the Hutt - Volunteer ■ Fire Brigade. - . ■ ■ : | The.financial'report, to November 18, showed the following balances in the various;loan loan: Water supply - portion (fully called up), nil; drainage portion, J29.400 called up), indnding iillOO regarding Everest's Creek, , 1597 Bs. lid;;: street imprbvemenf portion (fully called up), nil. . Gas loan ; Oh fixed,deposit, £M; current account, .£288• total,'^7Bß'9s. 2d. .'• ;- - -\- - : "... f The engineer reported'in connection! with the drainage, works that' good; progress.' had '.been made vvith' the erection '■ of- the -engine-hbuso for the hydraulic machinery at the septic tank. The laying .of. the sewers.-in Victoria and Wakefield Streets was in hand. In the gas, and, water services,.' 472 house connections had been made .'with the wa'ter.'mains to date, and two new gas services had been laid during the past,fortnight. Repairs to. streets and footpaths bad-been carried out in King's Road, ICnigKf s Road, White's Line East, Main 'Street, ■ Alicetown, arid Hutt Road. ■■.■'■•'•.:.: '■■.. -