PETONE AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1021, 10 January 1911, Page 8

PETONE AFFAIRS.

BOKOUGH COUNCIL MEETING. • The Petone Borough Council met last evening. There were present tho Mayor (Mr. J. W. M'Ewan) find Councillors Trueuinn, Young, Piper, Brocklebank, Southgate, Harding, List, Jones, and Short. The clerk to the Magistrate's Court at Petono notified that tho total amount of fee?, fines, and penalties imposed in bylaw cafes and collected in tho Petone Police Court during the quarter ended December 3J, 1910, was 19s. Gd. Accounts amounting to £379 16s. sd. were passed for payment. An expenditure* of J:5 by the Gala Committee on New Year's Day was endorsed. Interest payments for the half-year amounting to £719 IBs. Sd. on loans from tho Government totalling c£42,&iS 2s. Id. were also passed for payment, and authority was given to'meet interest claims on other loans as they fell due. • The borough engineer (Mr. AY. H. Cook) reported, under date January 9, that, the following streets bad been cleaned up during the month: Petono Avenue, Campbell Terrace, Gear, Sydney, Nelson, Richmond, Britannia, Bay, and Beach Streets. The west end of the Explanado was being metalled. The .bicycle track along the Hutt Road, from the" railway station to Nevis Street, had been reformed. A start had been made with repairs on Jackson Street. Fifteen chains of. Sandhills Eoad had been formed and metalled, which made this work, complete.. • An old cottage on the Recreation Ground had been pulled down, and a tool-shed erected. Repairs .had been effected to tho trotting track. Foundations of tho engine at the Eastern drainage works, had been completed early in the month, and also the genera-1 tor. The engines, producers, and pumps had been erected. The piping (gas and water] was in hand, waste-drains, had been laid, and shafting and pulleys erected. 11l about tc-n days' time the plant should bo ready for trial running. |- Three sheds had been erected in the borough during the month. As usual, 1 this had proved the slack, month of th» year, owners not caring to start' buildings before .-the holiday season was over. "Fees collected during the montli totalled 15s. Fees collected' during tho year totalled c£'l(s 10s. The estimated value of buildings erected during the year was 17s. Five water reservoirs had been put in during the month. : Plans, were in hand for bathing convenir euces on the Esplanade, and would shortly bo laid before the council. The report was adopted.