HUTT AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2845, 9 August 1916, Page 3

HUTT AFFAIRS

COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING.

N Tho monthly meeting of the Hutt County Council was hold yesterday morning, tho chairman, Mr. M. W. Welch, presiding. Tho inspector of works' report stutcd that outside ordinary maintenance practically no work was hoing done. In spite of the recent heavy gales, all Uie inconvenience which had been caused was by a lew trees falling on tlio roads. Those had been expeditiously romoved. Tho bridge on tho Pahau-tanui-Oppor Hutt Road will be started as soon as the metal-crushing is finished.

ihe Public Works Department wrote in connection with grants in aid available for expenditure on.the PukeruaI'aekakariki Road, and tho County Engineer was instructed to prepare plans immediately. A circular was received from tho Mayor of Onslow enclosing copies of the business which took place when tho deputation waited on the Minister of Railways in conncction with running Wanawatu trains to Lambton. Councillor Howell moved: "That tho Minister bo written to by the council urgiug upon him the necessity of trains boing /un to Lambton." Councillor Howell remarked, when moving tho motion, that continued agitation was the only way of getting what waß'xeqnired. Tho motion was carriod.

A resolution was passed: "That the overdraft at the Bank of New Zealand bo allowed to increase to £11,000." The overdraft at present is over £8000. Two complaints to. the bad state of roads at Lowry Bay and Wainui-o-mata woro referred to tho inspector of works for attention.