HUTT & ITS LIGHTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1821, 6 August 1913, Page 3

HUTT & ITS LIGHTS.

SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING. . A special meeting of the Hutt Borough Council was held on Monday evening to consider certain proposals from the Petono Borough Council n,s to tho extension of tlio present agreement for the supply of Kas from that body's municipal worts. The matter arose out of tlio Hutt 'Borough Council asking the Pctone body to have a. "booster" installed at its municipal gasworks so as to allow automatic lighting to be carried out at the Hutt. The Pctone body submitted a letter agreeing to a further extension of the agreement upon. the.following terms:— 1. The request for a ".booster" to bo ■agreed to. The "booster" to bo installed within sis months from tho signing of_ the new agreement and to bo maintained by the Petono Council. ■2. A gasholder of a capacity of 100,000 cubic feet of gas to be installed at tho Petone works. 3. The installation of the nccessary auxiliary plant, such as purifiers, retorts, new main, governor, and necessary fittings in order to maintain the supply of pas to tho Hutt. i. To put down an 8-incli main from the Hutt meter in the gasworks yard to White's Lino in liou of the existing 6-incli main. 5.' Tho' Petono Borough. Council to undertake tho installation of new plant mentioned in Nos. 2, 3, and 4, within three years froni tho signing of tho new agreement. G. Tho price of- to be reduced to 3s. 9d. per 1000 cubic feet, from the date the new agreement comes into force (August 1, 1910).' 7. Tho Hutt Council to be entitled to at least one-third of the monthly output of coke and tar at current market prices at the timo of the sale. 8. Tho other terms of.the new agreement to be similar to those of tho existing one. Condition' 1 was agreed to, subject to suggestions by the engineer in his report. The suggestion of the engineer, tlmt a pressure of 35-tenths be asked for' was_ added to condition 2, which was also'' agreed to. " Conditions 3 and 4 were agreed to. In regard to.tlie latter condition, Councillor Ball was of the opinion that the Biu. main was not necessary just yet. The trouble in regard to the gas some time ago was duo to defective mains, and ho would like to see these, attended to first. In regard to condition 5, it was decidpd to ask that the improvements in conditions 2, 3, and '4 be fulfilled within a shorter space of timo. Councillor Dawson moved in regard to condition 6 that the. Mayor and Councillors Clendon, Meldritm, n.nd himself interview the Petono Borough Council, and'ask that tho price per .1000 cubic feet be reduced to 3s. 9d. from August 1, 1911, instead of 1916. The motion was carried. Condition 7, together with the conditions already adopted, were left to the committee set up by Councillor Dawson to deal with when it interviews the Petone Council.