HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 713, 12 January 1910, Page 6

HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.

QUESTION OF HEAVY. TRAPFIC. There wore present at the monthly meeting iof . the-•' Hutt County Council '(which. was' heldyesterday). Councillors .Whiteman (chairman), Wakeham, Lynch, Galloway, W«lch, and Edwards. , . Among: other things the. inspector of wbrks' (Mr!J.' 'W- Cudby);.'rei>brfced'. that the. timber for redecking Silverstream. Bridge; was - now 1 on' the job. 'As a. result of the recent storm the Lowry. Bay-Day's: Bay Koad .was damaged and repairs total-: ling :.£SO would be necessary. The widening of : tire Lowry Bay' Bridge, was being' carried out. In. the : Akatarawa . truss,' bridgo.elevcn'pieces would'have' to be rcf-1 .placed-* :• /Fonrteon- new picces were, required' for.,the Hutt truss: bridge.; About .950 ifeot..df^.ironbark'timber .('was required; to.V replace allfatilty ' pieces.' l ' He' asked' ,the" council to allow him to procecd with .the work-at-once./.,. The:roads/m tho county were;in -gbo'd l order. It was -decided to adopt the report.. ;• 1 •••• 1 Tho question •of regulating ;hcavy traffic over .the.'.truss bridges lacroM.V.tne Akatarswa and Iluttßivers, was 'discussed. It was .decided, ' upon' ttli'e ' r'ecominendation of :the.-inspector,''to prohibit V.anyr.,i one v driving or riding, over ' tho bridges ■at other .than,' a walfing pace. The inspector, -'further:'suggested that', a.'limit should be_put on-alliloads .crossing, these 'lM^ra^'' : ''He>"iee6mtniehded' ' that no porson ' shodd bo" allowed to cross tho than' eight tons. This recommendation' was also adopted. . ' . V.- 1 V, : . ' ■ ... v-.•-•A deputation from the Hutt Sawmillers'.'. Association purged' that\.'the ' "charge' of J23 for. heavy iTaffic wagons should'; bo reduced to £10. It 'was pointed out .on - their, behalf, that things in ithe; tim-. ber' : line, .were"-very, dull. Ilad tho' price: of' timber . not - dropped'. the-.'.' request. ■ for: the reduction of tho feo would not have

been made. In the courso of the discussion ,the chairman declared that but :for . the v timber traffic. - the - expenditure' . for the upkeep of the roads'would -not be so great as it w«s. . Councillor .■'Welch' was of opinion that a", graduated wheel-traffic chaTge'would, bo more equitable. It was resolved, . on' the'. motioin - of Councillor Galloway, seconded by Councillor Edwards, to retain- the JE2S foe and enforce tho by-law. ' : ''