HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 970, 10 November 1910, Page 8

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) The following estimates for the period April 1, 1910, to March 31, 1911, have been approved by the Hutt Valley Tramway Board :-Dobit balance at .£3l 3s. lOd 17s. Bd.; secretary's salary, .£52; s ßß onev {< Printing and advertising, AIDS; poll expenses, ,£75; engineering and S??i -£120; . collecting rates, .£100; repayment to Hutt Borongh Council, .£96 lls. 3d.; repayment to Petono Borough Council, £9i 9s. 9d.; bank inm-? s I aud "barges. -£25; contingencies, ■*31 Gs. 9d.; total, JJM2 ss. lid. Amount Pol? 0 to met b J a general rate of 1-oth of a penny in the £ on .£1,809,210 being the total unimproved rating valuo ?i-S? P ro P e rb' on the valuation roll for '"« Suit Valley Tramway District, £Si 3 os. Hα.

. Petones new ambulance wagon, which is-.housed by the-local borough council, will be in charge of a controlling committee consisting of the following :-The Mayor (Mr. J. W. MTSwan) representing the council, W. S. Smith (Foresters , Lodge, W. B. Gough (Druids), C. P. Brooklebank (Oddfellows), W. Cos (St. Johns Ambulance, Petano division), Mrs. .Bennett (St. John's Ambulance Nursing division), and Messrs. Evans, Greening v ■??£• Corn ?, r , (the P ublio of ketone). Mr. MEwan will act:as chairman of the committee, Mr. Gough as secretary, and Mr. Smith as treasurer. Mr. and Mrs; H. J. Palmer, Master Palmer, and Mr. and Mrs. A..Coles, who have been on a six months' tour of Great Britain and the Continent, are expected to arrive m Petone at.the end of next week.