LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 9 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Amongst the passengers who' arrived by tho Moanafropi Sah. Francisso yesterday wore four jetty officers and &>■ marines' from the Preach gunboat Zeliei at Papeete, Who are returning to Prance. "Last year it was .decided to install two billiard tables* but at the end of twelve months the board resolved. fat have them from tho annual report of the Wellington. Y.M.aAv ■ A letter was received at a inciting of. the Eastbourne Borough Council, last evening from Mr. T. Boiiaiyne, General Manager of the New Zealand Hallways, ill connection with the gazetting of the new Hutt &>ad, regarding whiqh the letter states it will be. necessary to determine under which local. authority, or local, authorities, tb,e control of the road is to lie placed. • The following* local todies axe cpncernedjn tho matter:—Wellington City. Council, Onslow Borough Council, Petbno and lower. Hutt Borough Councils, Eastbourne Borough Couuojt, Miramar Borough Council, Hutt County Council, Makara County Council, .John-, spnville Tow.n Board,'and' the Upper' Knit Town Board,' Mr. ■Itoimyne suggests, in' conclusion, that a conference of..tho above, local bodies be called to settle the master. .... ... . • • . Much has been said,'and very'little done, in connection, with the to the new pipe bridge St.,Petone, which., spans the Hutt Jtivor, It is understood that tho work of erecting tho. .approach to the bridge, connecting the structure ; with the Lowry Bay Spaa, is to bo commenced At once. Mr. B.Urke, of Petorie, has been accepted as a contractor for .the J work. The matter'was discussed at the meeting of tho JSastbourng Borough Court- : oil last evening, when it was ; decided to see that the. Work was co'mmefioed right. away. The road . connecting the ..bridge with the I/OwrJ Bay. liwid, will, it is understood, be in us straight a line as possible with tine bridge.. Wfcon the road is ooraploted, it villi shorten the dis'tanco fpr motor-care, carts, and cyclists., coming from 'Wellington to any of the bays very considerably, As tho result of efforts, made in connection with St. James's Presbyterian Church annual sale of Work, a Sum of ,£l3O has been cleared.