PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1956, 13 January 1914, Page 3

PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The Petone Borough'.Council met last : l evening, the Major Oli ] | ; M'Ewan) presiding. . Councillors AY... K!;1 ; Forsyth, J. Whist, - A\ . Cox, : C. -;_1 3 - .i ' Brocklebank, A.'Anderson, II! Findlayji i T. Townscnd, E. H. Jones, : Truoman. wero also ' A letter was read from"the Welling--1 ton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board"; I notifying the council of two cases of, infectious diseases in the borough, : and;' stating that tlio lisuaE neccssary-* pre- | cautions liad been taken.—Received .rf 1 # It was decided to deal with thermit-' ter of improving the approach to .tho-; ' Petono Technical School atan jCarly, [ date. ''■ It was resolved to grant the Social;.; 5 ■ Democratic party tho use of iho I tion Ground on Anniversary Day.->:c !. "A letter was received from tlio "Wellington Harbour Bfiard in reply to one from tho council stating that the board * had no power in the matter of making. ' by-laws to deal with persons furiously; " j riding along tho Petono beach. . The, " 'Mayor mentioned that the council , wero proceeding against an alleged at an early date, on a charge of furious, riding on the 'beach—Tho letter was j received. " ! - : It was decided!"to donate-tlio sum of , ;.£5 towards the fluids of '.;tho.' Taita- ' Cer.-ietery Board. 'Vr I After much discussion,-it was uiinni-- ' monsly decided to give the' V. cllington Early Settlers' Association every assist-" ( alien regarding their proposed memorial j on Petono foreshore. Tlio Borough Engineer's roport!' : wliiclt J was adopted, dealt generally', with tho , various works being carried out in tlio I borough. The matter of fencing certain i dangerous parts of tho Koro Koro roadsj was being attended to at a very-small. , cost. A. serious break occurred in'tho water niain on Sunday, December;. 24.--. I through tho falling of a tree. ; The broken main was immediately cut.,'out j and repaired, and no inconvenience, was j experienced. Such, however,' was not the case on January .3. when the presj suro dropped to nil. Between 7 and. 9 a.m.. states tho Engineer's report, about six feet of was. drawn off from J the settling tank, representing apj proximately 100.000 gallons. After ( !) o'clock tlio pressure gradually ' inI creased till 10 o'clock, when tho normal : pressure was being recorded.. Where | this largo quantity of water went to has • mot yet been discovered, but investigations aro being made. The total value of buildings erect-ad in the borough for the year iust ended ' was £35,182!