HUIT BOROUGH COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1936, 19 December 1913, Page 10

HUIT BOROUGH COUNCIL

•'••.The-'monthly meeting of- : the'. :;1 Hu.it Borough Council was held last, evening. There, were present tho. Mayor (.Mr. K. P. Bunny) and Councillcrs iiobbs, Bail, i'urdy. i'arsoiiage, C-lendoii, ivemj>..thorno/.Mekinmi, Hodgins, and Daw. son. . ■•■■■.■.,- . . '

I"' A report was received from the committee tot up to inquire into the complaints mado by a local resident 111 relerence' to st-ray stock on Knight's Road. ; line" committee reported thai the complaints '.swere _ justified in that, in tho ■locality;'mentioned, complainant and his .neighbours; had. undoubtedly suffered very great, damage' owing to wandering stocic eating their hedges. The cviileno) gathered by. tho committeo further 1 in • dicated th.it-tho ranger had not given lvnight's • Road tho attention that was required to cope with the nuisance. Olio matter;which ■ tho'.commitleo' desired to ■ bring under thq'notice of tho council was that : fines inlli;ted by. tho Court had, in their, opinion,., be jn inadequate.to act-as '«•."deterrent;-, and'^it I ''. recommendedthat It ho 'attention. ..ofthe Justico'f Department';. be- drawn ■to tho" matter; « It further''recomineuded that, in . cases of future-, prosecution, for ■ tonic-..- Time 1 at least, -tho town _■ clerk should attend: tho court"for"the'.'purpose of pointing' out to:, tho 'presiding magistrate or justices that the fines • hithertofimlicted have beetv inadequate;? The' report-of the committee was adopted, and it was left to tho engineer to go into the question of appointing a deputy ranger and report to tho next meeting of the council, Xotmcatioi was received from'-'' tho Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board of a case of typhoid fever in the borough. s

A letter was received from Mr. T, M. Wilford, M.P., advising that the Government was placing a slot telephone in tho Hutt district, and suggesting that the council should make representations as to a site for the same. The Government is to be written to, to the effect that a suitable position would bo near, the Main Bridge, opposite tho police' s.tation. It was decided to protest against the proposed 'oliargo of 6d for the use of tho instrument, and refuso tho .telephone altogether unless the charge were fixed at 3d. The following' recommendations of tho Works Committee was adopted: "That the gas main between Knight's and King's Roads be linked up at an estimated cost of £30. the pipes, on hand to be •utilised as far as they will go, and sufficient, now ones procured to complete the \vork.

A petition wan received from 24. residents in the vicinity of Knight's Road, asking that the continued neglect of tho foot-paths in tho vicinity bo remedied. Tiio matter was referred to the.Works Committee. to deal with.

■■■: After tho meeting, which was the last for tho year,'tho councillors, staff, and press adjourned to tho Mayor's room at Mr. Bunny's invitation, and there short speeches were made, toasts drunk, and mutual good wishes of tho season exchanged. In a short speech, tho Mayor complimented tho staff on the work of the year, and remarked that tho Ilutt was in the fortumHo position of having such large undertakings as tho sewage scheme completed, when other boroughs of equal population had not started on similar works. Another subject of interesttouched upon was that the establishnvmit of a motor-bus service in the borough. The opinion was that the time was ripe for such an undertaking.