HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2377, 5 February 1915, Page 6

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

iTrom Onr Special Correspondent.) The first meeting for the year of the Hutt River Board was held last evening, there being present: Mr. H. Baldwin (chairman) and' Messrs. Welch and Knight. Mr. H. Baldwin was re-elect-ed chairman of the board. The superintendent of the National Provident Fund wrote asking for information concerning the staff employed by the board in order that the amendment to the Act relating to the superannuation of their employees might be considered by the local authorities. It was resolved to supply the necessary information. The overseer's report stated that the second boom below the Hutt bridge, which was 94 feet long, ha<} been completed at a cost of £59 3s.- 4d., and the opinion was expressed that this boom should be extended after another flood. Two broken booms on No. 1 groyne A had been replaced with, turpentine booms at a cost of £8 3s.- 6d. At Fletcher'6 paddock, above the Hutt bridge the bank-filling had been completed at a cost of £3 16s. 9d. Repairs at Haywards Land Co. had cost £10 45., the estimate being £10, and by removing all logs from this portion of the river channel it was considered that it would deepen and take the pressure off the bank below. There had been two freshes during the month, one of 6Ft. 6in. on January 10 "and another of 4ft. on January 23. All property belonging to the board, including the stopbank, had been cleared of noxious weeds. Owing to the accumulation of shingle, caused by the council screening, and leaving boulders on the beach, the report suggested that the board 6hould stop all screening on any of the beaches, unless boulders are removed daily. The report was adopted. ' At a meeting of the Lower Hutt Fire Brigade held last evening (Captain Slinn presiding), Fireman Baldwin was appointed delegate to the United Firo Brigade's, Conference to be held at Timaru. Cheques of five guineas and two guineas, from Messrs. James Bell and A. Roberts respectively, were received, for services rendered by the brigade at recent outbreaks. It was intimated that the fire motor-chassis would bo delivered at the Hutt next week.-