HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL
A! meeting of the, Lower Hutt Bor-; ollgh Council was held'last evening, there being present': The Mayor ,(Mr.; H .Baldwin), and Councillors Meldrum, Kempthome, Brossel, Clendon, Parsonage, Ball, and Hobbs.' •■•"'" Mr. J. B. Virtue wrote asking for repairs to footpath in Cornwall Street, and it was agreed to tar the portions referred to. .... The engineer's report stated that 26i chains of footpath preparing had been done during the last few days at 16s. 9d. per chain. The Hutt County Council had offered their road grader at a cost of £2 per day, biit as the council would require to find a man'and horseteam to work it, and carts to remove material, which would niean 30s. a day or £9 per week for the grader alone; the engineer was of .the opinion that tho charge was excessive. A steam roller, costing nearly £1000, could be hired for much less. One connection .had been made with the water mains and three permits issued under, the drainage and sanitary by-laws, making tho total numbers 974 water, and 869 drainage. The report was adopted.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2237, 25 August 1914, Page 3
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183HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2237, 25 August 1914, Page 3
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