HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 22 October 1913, Page 5

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(Prom Our Special Correspondent.) UPPER HUTT TOWN BOARD. The fortnightly meeting of the Upper Hutt Town Board was held on Monday evening. Present: Commissioners Webb (chairman), Benge, Bennington, Edwards, Kemp, M'Curdy, and Robertson. It was decided to inform Messrs. Seaton, Sladden, and Pavitt that it was the wish of tho board that they should make an early inspection of tho new Trentham footpath jiow under construction. The dog tax collector reported 80 dogs registered -and 1 8 to be registered, making a' total of £25 collected to date. The matter of preserving several beautiful trees on the roadhno in front of tho residences of Messrs. Barber and M'Grath at Trentham was left in the hands of tho Works Committee to deal witli. In this connection the offer of Commissioner Edwards to* suitably enclose same was icceivcd with thanks. Standing orders were suspended to enable Commissioner Bennington to move: "That, as representatives of tho people of Upper Hutt, this board is of opinion that in viow of the proposed discontinuance d the 0.40 p.m. train from Upper Hutt on Mondays and Wednesdays, a. passenger car be attached each evening to •tho Wairarapa goods train, leaving Upper Hutt for Wellington about 9 p.m." This was seconded i>y Commissioner M'Curdy and carried. It is understood that, tho residents of Wairarapa aro making a similar request in. connection with tlw through goods train mentioned. Mr; G; Laingmcason, the board's waterworks engineer, reported that at the present rate of procrcss the contractors would complete the water supply by Christmas, and that, notwithstanding two severe floods, the bridge contractors were making excellent- progress also with the pipe bridge.