HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 28 January 1913, Page 7

HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

m"' e' p n ll6 atl *i"lcd tlio Mayor ffe , '4Sf9-SMSNr 4 h 5 iW^AV&SSJrf*.!*. '-PMnJ U ?y?r 'jfwwarded a cheque . for to. °f, Messrs. Biddiford and Watkms jn respect to the debentures nreBtater y thnfc Jbl I°' • further' SnHuT e , n ; cn !» n undertaking l w UIlq - Os. Gd. en ThAr"^ 1 ns from January Mr P t tl0 » was approved. A LKK s:,™ H * M^| IS f / 0r .P a ' lwa / 3 recently, with rent IWon'e, tlie stated if ,h0 tontation a wishes vrerp agreed fc, the Pei.artmerit would immediately Ve' inunaited uitli complaints from. rasHnf ff «?*' tt £ r full c"nsid« n Hon to matter, ho vorclr.sd that no Alteration could bo tnndo. Th'o Midler' olso stated, in mnrd. to/Sundav tuins, that ho regretted tnal t'lo exi'diiw ar-' rnngements.could not to'disturbed;-80-' ceived • v

The Inspector of Noxious Weeds called attention .to a few -agwo t nlantis pri'W-Pits.-Resolved tn this pit er which .controls Tho Napier Gas Company,stated, in- reR'V o communication from the council, that _ they were prepared to' deliver tar, at either Napier or Hastings, Stations, in any quantity, not ■ less than a thousand gallons, nt ..Ir], r gallon.—Received. The Foiiding Gas Company* wrote stating that they could not supply tpr,, owing to an extensive, local demand.—Received, ■ - V , ..

.Mr. Ct. H. Stupples applied for permission to cqnstnjct: a crossing pn the,northern (ude of Graccftcld Road in order to give access to his property. The engineer said that the oost. would be £5. It was that: the work bo dono provided that the, applicant pay half ,tho cost, £1 10s..

; '•K'e Wellington Meat Export 00. wrote, in answer to a question, from; tho counoil, that they were making arrangement for the storage of oil fuel in a much more ™y tlian ' n tho pa^t.—Received. Mr. Geo. Bradley made application' to pave a mctprrcar' licanso transferred from one.car to another, he haying sold the par which licensed. Coimoillqr ICemptnorrio moved_that a reply be- sent stating that Mr. Bradley would liavo, to take out a. fresh; license.. *

I' Tivo...ratepayers -wvire granted, assist, fince with their drainage.. .;■/ The Hutt Park Committee was granted tho balance of tho oounoil's subsidy, ,£25, for' tho current year,'. It' waa resolved to pay two firemen wlio had been on duty at a repept fire fpr four Jionrs' watching .time,. . Mr. Vf. H, llusseli/'in reply to a request from, the council fisking. permission to give a lecture in the library, pointed out that lie would bo giving a ,lecturo in a public hall in the near'future, and as most library subscribers would bo present;; thought that one • lecture would suffice.—Received. - ' ;

The .engineer reported good progress I with the eastern drainage section (S), The additions to the reservoir were being proceeded with, and given fine weather, the work should be done within tho specified time. Tho post to dato was ,£152 1(1?. sd. Nearly the whole of the loose footpaths had receivod another coat of tar, and were now quit© good. Tho work of 110deeking'Milling Bridge would bo gone on with ns soon as the necessary notice (closing the bridtro for traffic) had been riven. Four connections had been made with the water mains, making the total , tp date BG9. Six hundred and ninety-nine' permits, had been issued to date under t]io iDrainago and Sanitary By-laws. , Tho borough inspector reported on several unlit vehicles' plying in the borough; 'and tt was resolved pot to llwnse these vehicles..