PETONE AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1529, 27 August 1912, Page 6

PETONE AFFAIRS.

4 ' The fortnightly meeting of the Petone Borough Council was held at Petone 'last evening, tho, i'ollotrinsr being present;— The Mayor (Mr. ,T. "\V. M'Ewan), and Councillors Short, List, "Wakeham, Brockelb*uk, Cox, and Trneninn. lietters wero read from the Wellington Rugby League and from the Wellington Rugby Football Union, making application for the vjso of the Petone football grounds. It was suggested that_ the grounds should go to the highest bidder, but a motion was carried to tho• effect that the matter be left in abeyance till the first meeting of the council, held in January, I!H3. Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Compauy wrote asking if the council was prepared to grant a permit for a firm to build a modern soap manufactory. Tho firm stated that' (lie factory would bo built on up-to-date plans, and they did not anticipate any .objection on the part of the residents. Councillor Cox moved: "That a reply bo forwarded to Messrs. Bethune and Co. slating that tho council will grant a permit so soon as plans have been submitted which are in compliance with the council's by-laws." The motion was carried. A letter was received from the Minister for Labour re tiro Wilford and the Hevetaunga Settlement for Workers' Dwellings, stating that the Labour. Department had been anxious to erect houses on tlveso sections, and would erect them now provided that there were bona fide applicants under tho Workers' Dwellings Act, 1910. It was decided that the Mayor and town clerk draft a reply to the Minister for Labour with the object, of accelerating the disposal of theso lands. Councillor Short moved: "That tho council take tho necessary steps by way of a special order to amend Clause j'J, Rub-clause A, of the Drainage and Sanitary By-Law, I'JII. by deleting the whole of tho words, after tho words '(> feet,' in (he eighth line, and insert after the word 'thickness' in tho seventh line 'together with a four-inch kcrbing.' " Tho motion was carried.