LOWER HUTT AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 110, 7 February 1928, Page 7

LOWER HUTT AFFAIRS

CIVIC ASSOCIATION MEETS.

Mr. Baker, vice-president, presided at the first meeting this year of the Lower Hutt Civic Association.

Correspondence from the Health Department stated that departmental officers had been instructed to report on the Borough Council's method of disposal of house and general refuse, and that the previsions of the Health Act would be strictly enforced. In reply to a protest from the association, the Town Planning Board indicated that the granting of permits by the Borough Council for industrial purposes in residential areas was contrary to the Town Planning Act, and that local bodies would be speeded up with the presentation of their town-planning schemes. The promotion of the health, amenities, and advancement of citizens was the board’s objective. The secretary was instructed tn write to the Postmaster-General regardin,? the inadequate provision of letter-receiving postal boxes in the district, and the allegedly exorbitant charges to telephone subscribers with Wellington when using the local telephone svstem. and request in<- improved facilities.

Mr. Forsyth was appointed the association’s representative at the meeting convened to initiate an incorporated gala society for the borough.

In American universities the more grubby and disgraceful your trousers are the more honourable' it is, so Dr. Hight has observed in a dozen American universities (says the Christchurch “Press”). The trousers are very baggy and made of some rough moleskin material. Among senior men they are very much stained—the amount of dirt indicating the seniority of the owner. The only other visible garment is a blouse, usually violently gaudy, resembling the blouse of the Mexican peon.