HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5270, 13 February 1878, Page 2

HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.

The ordinary meeting of the Hutt CountyCouncil was held yesterday. Present—Councillors Taylor (in the chair), Chew, Lancaster, Morgan, Speedy, Dick, Smith, and Monaghan. THE JOHNSONVIILE ROAD. Authority for the engineer to survey a road from Kaiwarra to Johnsonville, was sealed and signed. KARORI AND JIAKARA HOAD. Mr. C. O. Graham, chairman of the Karori and Makara Highway Board, waited upon the Council as a deputation from the Board, to present a petition signed by seventy-two residents in the above-named district, asking that the co-operation of the County Council in the proposed work of making a road from Words worth-street to Karori by way of Polhill Gully, in favor of which the great majority of the ratepayers of the district had expressed themselves. Should the Council sanction the work, arrangements would be made by which the great bulk of the expense, estimated at £I3OO, would be borne outside of the funds of the Highway Board, which had undertaken to find a sum of £3OO per annum for the next two years, and the Board proposed to derote such funds as might be placed at its disposal by the County Council out of the Government grant-in-aid. He (Mr. Graham) said he believed the City Council would sanction the road, the Public Works Committee having already passed a resolution in its favor, subject to certain conditions relative to the protection of the watershed of the Kaiwarra stream, across which the proposed road would be carried by a bridge. The question of making this road had been agitated for a great number of years, and proprietors of land through which it would pass had agreed to give a chain wide without compensation. The following were appointed a committee to investigate the desirability of granting the line ;—Councillors Chew, Lancaster, Monaghan, Taylor, and Morgan, the eommittee to report to the Council at its next meeting. ACCOUNTS. Accounts to the amount of £I(3S Is. 7d. were passed for payment. UPPER HUTT AND WAIKANAE ROAD. It was resolved, on the mstion of Councillor Morgan, —That in the opinion of this Council it is desirable that the chairman should interview the Government, relative to the appropriation for the Upper Hutt and Waikanae road, with a view to the progress and extension of the same. The Council then adjourned.