HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.
(From Our Special Oorreßponflent.l « CONTROL OF MOTOR TRAFFIC. Having in Tierf a by-law controlling the speed of motor-cars m Petone, members or the Borough Council witnessed a trial with a car oil Saturday afternoon, through the main streets of the horough. -The result will be. fully reported on the coun- ' oil's meeting next Monday night. , It is. understood ' that the Lower Hutt Borough Council have mado satisfactory arrangement? for raisin? the money authorised by th» recent loan poll, and the engineer has already placed orders for some of the material.. The annual exhibition' of roses, under the auspices of the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society, is to he held in the Town Hall Building, Lower Hutt, next Wednesday. Should the present mild weather continue,: there is every indication of a ' good display. Mr. Robert Gibson, foreman carpenter at the Petone Railway Workshops, retires on superannuation !at the end of this week. Mr. Gibson has been 38 years in the service, eighteen of which he- has spent at . Petone. He will ho tendered a r social evening at Petone next Saturday , night. The funeral of the late Mr. Robert i Davies, which took -place at Petone yesterday a'fte'rnoon, was largely attended, re--1 presentatives from the Commercial Club, 1 Petone Working Men's Club, and tho Central Club being present. Many messages | of condolence and floral tributes were re- . ceiyefl. _
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1600, 18 November 1912, Page 6
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230HUTT AND PETONE NEWS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1600, 18 November 1912, Page 6
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