HUTT BOROUGH COOUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 737, 9 February 1910, Page 9

HUTT BOROUGH COOUNCIL.

■:';, .;.;- r MCJOTHLT ■MEETING: , O ; :: f .:;.' -Thb'Hutt.•.County:. , Council- held-iits monthly. moetiiig at its rooms, "Latnbtqn :Quay, •' yesterd-iy. '.■ indrninjf; ;.•; GpiuhcUlor ; presided, und /Coa'nftiliws. : Ed-, ■ward 3 ,: Galloway, Lynch, ;W.akeham, aind , Welch were-: also present. ■'; '■':■' •'■■ *' -.;,; i • Conncilior: .Wakeham ■ was .appointed/a member of the Taita. Cemetery Ti-ust, iu addition, to Councillor,,. Welch,".. the lato '-'.i'';' .'- ■■■■ '.'•■■ .■',;-. i :'.'-.'■ "'•' - '■'. ln'-his imonthly : reporl', v '.llri'-"J. ,V !.'W. Cndby, '-the-council|s'.inspector, said'.that the main-road through.VaraparaumU'had been , ■ widened ,for a>. distance of about . twenty.. chains: ...In. v the;. Hprokiwi .Hiding metal had - been-quurried'and. bfqken. for Hoyward's 'Eo.ad. :■ The Silyer;..strcain': bridgo;:.Jiad-.:bemi irtidecked; the 'pier. , '.;"at 1 . the;'southern yendivshowedi;. signe. ■of decay,'and he;had: r orderedT.timberifor repairs to the\ The condition ■;. of the two :Akatarawa bridges was;'.T?orse tlianho had anticipated, And the work of Repairing "..would- occupy, some . tlmo. ;He had iarranged'.togo .on.ato'nce with.fur; ' ther river. protective; works at ;the easternend of tho : gorges in Epuni Riding,' and just near: the .western end of .Mr. Seagar's' property. ' The. repairing of Lovray. J3ayDay'B, My ltoad- was; being carried -out. ,- A; good deal of damage, had been done by '6tock ,to. the turf banks on the Eaumati Estate. ■"■■ Repairs... had 'beei ; -.' effected," ; and the inspector i-uggested that ■ th-i ■ dedica: tion of fiimu, Eata, and Matatua Streets might now. -bo: accepWd.-tThe TOpbrt was adopted. ■:':: ■''-:;:'■;: ''"■■i : .: '• :J; "l \l':'■:.',■:■ It was.stated. , during"the meeting, that in order to.' preserve the bridges': in r the : Pakuratahi district.from' destruction froni hres lighted, by picnickers,..tho; council has had to'.keep a; man oh duty at night time , during 'the .'summer: months. ''. One of the largest.'.;bridges' h'as"''T)eeri , .' ; nearly burned doiyn on. two. occasions.'' :■' ' .'.air. ..J., A.'.'.Fprrest. forwarded,!his. iesiguation: as .roadmun. v .: , V; .A'- sum of X6O is to be"spent in makine alterations;.to Lyricli's Crossing, Paekariki, as suggested "by the' : Bailway, Del partmeut. =:: ■. ' -"' : i'"'.' . ■ '■>.-.