PETONE COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 157, 15 October 1912, Page 8

PETONE COUNCIL.

The fortnightly meeting of the Petone Borough Council was licit! Inst evening. Those present were: The Mayor (Mr. .T. W. M'Ewan), and Councillors Trueman, Burridge, Lodder, Cox. Brocklcbnnk, Wakeham, List, and Short..

Before dealing with tlie scheduled business, a motion was carried to the cffect that tho council should write to the Government asking for a new post office for I'etono anil also write. to the Railway Department, suggesting that it" would be more convenient if the train now leaving Petone at 7.-30 p.m. were to leave at 7.10 p.m., as formerly. It was also resolved that the Railway Department bo asked for a reply to a letter from the council writfen sAmc time ago, inquiring why the Wairarapa train docs not stop at Petone. .

The secretary of tho Petone Junior Club wrote asking permission to make use of one of the dressing Sheds on tho Recreation Ground for training purposes, and to be allowed to use the ground for evening runs, the first (o tnko place on November (i. The application was granted. Regarding the derelict motor-car that has bei-n lving on the side. of the Hutt Road since' Thursday last, it was decided that the police be informed of the mattor. As the next mceSing of (lie council falls on Labour Day, it was decided to liold the meeting .Oil the following Tuesday, October 10. .