PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2807, 27 June 1916, Page 7

PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL

.At last evening's meeting of the Petmio Borough Council there were present' Tlio Mayor (Mr. .J. W..M'E(van), ami Councillors Cox, List, Brocklebank, Anietson, M'iCenzie, Jones, and Truenun. The' I?rime Minister advised that the council's resolution urging that a Tair, Kent Bill be-introduced during the nifcsmit session was receiving the careful consideration of the Government 'i ho chair, man of the 'Recruiting Board stated that the council is to be commended for the action it proposes to take, and that it would give him pleasure to have payments for life insurance premium!) included in the local bodies expenditure in connection with recruiting that it is proposed to validate during tho session. The Town Clerk, Wellington, intimated that the Hutt Road Board has ascertained that tho Wellington City Council has instructed its officers to prepare a set of by-laws which upon adoption by the council will be submitted to the board for approval. Messrs. iimldle, Anderson, and Bolton inquired if the council had any control over the track through Lady Hector's property, and it was decided to refer the mattor t-> the borough solicitor. The Workers'., Educational Association of New Zealand anplied for a grant of .£SO, and it waa resolved to hold over consideration of the subject for three months. The railway stationmaster at Petone stated that the matter of the pilfering of coal would receive careful attention, and asked that he be advised of any case coming under the council's notice, so that prompt steps may bo taken io Lriug the offondera to account. On the motion of Iho Mayor, seconded by Councillor M'Kcnzic, the following motion was carried unanimously: —"That this council regrets the lops to tho town of another bright life— Mister Thompson—killed in action in Franco, and that a letter expressing its sincere sympathy bo sent to his widowed mother."