UPPER HUTT BOROUGH

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 110, 7 February 1928, Page 9

UPPER HUTT BOROUGH

CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS The Upper Hutt Borough C° un “ l met last night, _ the Mayor (air. IRobertson) presiding. . The council decided to support the following r ? mit from tho Green Island Borough Council, to oe placed delegates at the annual conference ot the Municipal Association: That the present law relating to the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance ot hignways in the Dominion Ire. amended, so as ?o enable the Main Highways Board to take over and be wholly . res P™ , ’^ e for the main arterial roads .in the Dominion, with a view to coping with present and future traffic requirements The Green Island Council, in support of the remit, stated that it had arrived at the conclusion tfiat coping with the present-day traffic was no a Proolem for individual local bodies, but was essentially a national problein. For the smaller boroughs in Pajticular, road reconstruction and mat ntenance had become a problem whleh was increasing rear by year, desire the as sistance which some received, in tne shape of subsidies from the Highways B Mr dS- W. Ferguson, of Silverstream, wrote stating that le was cerned that the council had made no provision for fire-fighting appliances tn the form of hydrant or hose in the dis trief, although mams provided with fire plugs had been put down in the streets. If , the cost of a veg lieht hose-reel, with, say. 300 of standard size canvas hose, and hydrant, couplings, and <brpctor ;, Vn nV too "rent, he would be prepared to purchase them for housing on his Pg m where it would be available not onl for his own house, but also for loan to neighbours in the event of fire. Tn thanking Air. Ferguson for his offer the council decided to simply of the cost of the equipment, and to inform him tlmt it was 1" tenfion to provide the district with firefmhtine equipment nt an earlv date. The Works Committee was deputed o prepare a schedule of works for the P ’pef" was mniU bv the Merer <o the excellent service heme C.U’" IIT ’? Wellington Tree Ambulance. tbit an nmbnlnnc" Saturday and Sunday might he arranged to raise funds for the cervine in addition io the bv the council. Ambulance buttons could bo sold on the Satnrnnv and on flip SnnAnv arrangements could be made for bands to play and for collections to be taken an.