HUTT & PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2168, 5 June 1914, Page 5

HUTT & PETONE NEWS.

A meeting ot the Hutfc River Board was hold last erasing. Mr. ji. Baldwin presiding.- Other Bombers present ivere Messrs, Knight, Bowers, and Kennedy. The overseer's report stated that owing to floods in tllo river during the greater part of the month' progress 6% the protective works had Often difficult,. The work at Andrews's li-ad had to he abandoned until the river level fell. Scorning was still going mi near this spot, and it was reconinitiidi'i.l that a should be put in la prevent fm-tlwr damage, and also another' groyne at Welsh's, About one aii'd.a half chains of new protestivc work had been erected at Beckston's at a ee-st of ■£$ Ss. Thi} cost of repairing a sinkage at Gear island had amounted to £-5 13s, A sinkage of about two chains in length '■Jrad tafcaa placo below Belirioiit, am the estimated cost of refilling would be £10. Two slips had occurred in the river bank.at Alicetown, the estimated cast of rejiiov* ing same being about £20. The report was adopted, anxl it was reselved that the overseer's reeonwiendations should receive further consideration. A motion of comlolovce in fespeet to the death of the late Mr. prwn SteceJis was KiiTk'fl in silence. The scectvd scries of progressive euchre parties under the auspices of the llutt Fire Brigade (memlws' wives and friends) was lie Id lasts (-versing at Hull Fire Station, A demonstration of the rut of modern dressmaking-was jjiven .at the Pe-t-oiw Technical School "last atenwz l».v Miss'Laurewv.