UPPER HUTT’S NEEDS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 192, 12 May 1944, Page 6

UPPER HUTT’S NEEDS

Citizens’ Association’s Policy The policy of the Upper Hutt and District Citizens’ Association was outlined by Mr. C. A. Rendle at a well-attended meeting at Trentham recently. The main points in the policy, he said, were as follows: —To render the maximum assistance to the Government in the “win the war effort”; to make available the fullest services the council can render in assisting in the satisfactory rehabilitation of local returned servicemen and service women; to introduce the council’s housing scheme so that private section owners will be able to get homes erected at'a reasonable weekly cost; to hardsurface main subsidiary roads to prevent their costly annual upkeep, and' to hardsurface at least one footpath in .every street; to eliminate without further delay the flooding nuisances at Wallaeerille. Trentham, and Heretaunga; to.improve existing water supply and gp into the question of sewerage; to make use of the town planning scheme, and through it endeavour to preserve a portion of Barton’s Bush for a public domain; to urge the Government to make a start on the duplication and electrification of the line to Upper Hutt, and immediately wait upon the Railways Department for an improvement in the existing service, particularly the rail-car service; to take steps to prevent further river erosion of the valuable residential land within the borough; to use the influence of the council to assist in obtaining the local establishment of adequate educational provisions for post-primary pupils.