HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1610, 29 November 1912, Page 6

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

iFrom Our Bpecial OorresDonaent.l . The town clock for Potdne, which is to bs supplied by Messrs. T. Ballinger and Co Ltd., of Wellington, is to be ot up-to-date design. It will be ft B.P. system of uatent electric impulse clock, manufactured by Gent and Co., of England. There will 1A four dials, each of six feet, skeleton cast iron, fitted with sections of opal, so that they may bo suitably illuminated at night. The chimes and electric clock hammer bell weigh lOewt. Last evening the two-year-old daughter of Mr. C. Fisher, of Lower Hutt, whilst watching some boys, at work on telegraphy in a shed, caught, up a bottle of nitric acid, and before anyone was aware of what was happening, the little girl had spilt the contents on her hands and legs, hhe was severely injured. . Members of the Lower Hutt Borough Council made a tour of inspection to the eastern approach of the Hutt pipe bridge yesterday afternoon in order to look into the nature of a complaint made by residents in that, locality in regard to access ■to their property. An inspection will also be made of the Native reserve, south of the Waiwetu River, through which it has been suggested a road should bo formed. Reports on 'both matters will bo discussed at the council's next meeting.