LOWER HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1051, 14 February 1911, Page 7

LOWER HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

■ There were present at the Lower Hutt Borough Council's usual meeting last night: Tho Mayor (Mr. E. P. Bunny) and Councillors Baldwin, Macaskil), Roots, Haybs. Kempthorn, - Fearce, Hawthorn, and Clere.: ' ■ . • At'the council's request, the Wellington Citv, Council forwarded extracts Jrom its by-laws, relative to icc-cream .vonuorfi, which explained that a license had ~to bo issued to each vendor, arid stands allotted; ' Councillor Baldwin moved that a similar by-law bo adopted at the Hutt; —Carried. ■ _ ' • ' ■In reference to -Hie council's refusal to take over Ilurae Street until tho engineer had drawn up a report on tho matter, the trustees of. tho Britannia Estato advised that the street in question, lmd been approved by the council somo time ago, and therefore requested that Hume Street bo taken over nt once..' .Councillor Baldwjji moved:—"That on account of tho Byndi* Cttto not being in a position to hand over tho. streets'for tho v past two years, ft ml, tliey now being in a bad state, of repair, • the.council declines dedication,until repairs are > effected.". Councillor . HawthOnK remarked that it would be who to debit tho syndicate,'with half, tho c'ost of repairs,'as they*had'been paying,rates for two years on residential sections.—lhe motion was carried, a bond to bo accept:cd from the, -syndicateto curry tho work V Mr. D. Spilmnn ■ wrote, asking, if .0:' • council was prepared to proceed with, the • outting : of •a ; drain from Wainm Koad to the' Waiwetu' Stream, for which estimates had'been; grantedat 'a cost-ot i'nbout ..£so.—lt! anstriiot 'iho engineer to report .on., tho mutter as -soon as his other, reportsw?ro completed. •-Mr. A. Patrick altered a strip of lftntl ;along Waterloo Jtosd,?iu'front ,of =hia, secrtion. for-street widening, Jho conditions ■being that tho council would do tho liUine m and; fencing requircd.-rlt wnfi dc-, cided >to instrilot tho' cngmcev.-.to ..ascer-. tain tho .cost of the work, j : ' ' • The alterations necessary , having boon ■complied-with, as instructed by, tho, en-, eineer, . a license,; was granted,. to ot. ■ James'd Hall.- , • :■ ■: '• i'm • Tho-engineer reported that the pipes aro, now laid along tno stop-bank-ni far as. Black Croek,\ a distance, of about, lift) ; chains. Twelvo chains uf. fencinghave, been completed-along the most dangerous, part of , Wainui Hill Uoad., Tarring and. sanding on tho Alioetowri roads pro. being, proceeded with, ; Tho cost, of tho paint-, ing ot' tho bridge to dato is JCI9 15s. lid. The work is proceeding. On tho; motion of Councillor. Baldwin, tho engineer .was. instructed to-spend .only another .£3O on, tho tarring and sanding of Alicctown. Two >■ hundred rperwita. under the l)rainago and Sanitary By-law havo been issued, and fortheso 180 aro in use.