HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.

Otaki Mail, 11 July 1923, Page 2

HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.

MONTHLY MELTING 'llThe ordinary monthly meeting ofThe 11 above Council wav held at Wellington yesterday. Present: Or. 11. D. Atcin--10 S(J1! (chairman), E. Gard, A. Campbell, J. Whiteman. A. I. Maekay, and c. I al Limbriek. eh _ , t Inspector's Report. n ,l Al r - J- TV. Cudby reported that a fairlj Iv large slip had occurred in the Taita S'-’rge. but that traffic was only blocked ud ior :i lon ' bouts. The wet-weather had | O . bad a damaging affect ou all roads, and Ike thorough!are between Parapaaauutv |„ an d Paekakariki was very bad and dufja. v-tilt to cope with.—-Adopted. ie- Miscellaneous. 'd it was decided to call for fc«sh toad<?u ers lor Stokes 1 Valley bridge contract, the only lender received being consul bb cred too high. !l,! it was resolved to contribute *3 towards the eo»t of mniutainance of tli« pipe bridge, i’etone. it was agreed to take no action u An resent re jo rding the propo.««t at Bay’s Bar. ( l_j Contracts lor the Raumati ilauinags works were lot to R. W. ALtdean, Kitteridge and Cootes, and to Beckett anu Delaney. Cr. Aiachay rijeosinianded that the ms construction of footpaths from the . school to the railway (l'aekakarikii be oh. done.—Agreed tu. the mutter to be left to Cr. Maekay and Inspector to at toad l o. The proposed sul»-di\i.-i*n of Alt. -\, I. .Smith "s land at Caokaknriki was agreed to. Cr. Maekay asked that the jirojvo.al in to subsidise C. and A. Odlitt fur the tit. * •lu-iaHing of AJauugaiitii Ruud, and the :t<; Hip|dy of pipes bf held in obeyjinee, K» having been too busy to go into the ma l ler.—Agreed to. ,n From Department «f Interim] Affairs „] notifying the Council of the gazetting of the change of name <»f Bliinnierloil extension to Karehana Bay.—Received, to J- rom the Public Works’ Department, ) setting out the proposed "looping of the eount-ies in this district for the purposes of tli. Main Highways ’ Art, Ik ttigg. it was suited that' tins counties t® be included with the Uutt were Kiwi* ten, Iluiuwlu'iiua, Oi*oua. Mr« ka ra, and Alauawatu. Cr. Alaekay ooKsid.red the Alinistsi! should be given all assistance possible) and moved the Council agree with t!s proposed grouping.—-Agreed to. From the J’. and T. Department suiting that the quarry works at Pao* kakariki w»» .jeopardising the tele* „. grajik lines, and a.k.-d if the Oouieil intended widening the road.—Decided, ..; on the motion of Cr. Alaekay, to widen a the road at this particular place. и. From Education Board co;ufdaiuing \ of w ater flooding the teacher't rosideucti „. at Pahautanui, and asking the Coumiil j,. to give the matter immediate atlcntiou. —To be attended to. ■ Brunt Hutt Valley Bower Board, for* •I warding {Man? oi the proposed lighting к. of varioui* areas in the country, and re* questing the Council to mark on tb# -.- plans where the lights were to b» *ita« , uted.—To be left to individual Council* d lots to leport on. d From fitnfford and Gtufford, r*qu"t> J iiig the Council to accept dcdio»lion t-J ... wv'j road reserves in the Malcolm l leu, .üb-di vision, Pfirapu.r»uuiu.—' d Necesktiry .eal to be affixed, v From A. D. Bunn.', asking the Council to provide an appisjach to In* pifipcrtf ... at Paraparj».umu.— Left to Cr. Aivczsy if to attend v». f A l»ft€) war r«<ieiv*d tr*<* <» Wellingtou Automobile Club ijtreritig tfl eoniribute £b*t toward- sn engine*: i M-poit. ‘‘to settle the qua-lion whe'Cr s bitumen surfacing i» practicable on t l -'- 0 main country roads in the vicinity ol |. Wellington. ’ > i “There are two hu'ndicd and four miles of roads in the Hutr county. 11 remarked the ehainnan (<’i, W. if. Ati. kin son), ‘ ‘ and the tfellijigtoii Atii'it fl ' a bile Club is willing to pay £3O toward* -. an engineer’■•* report. Why. it would cost ikiO'i at least, and probably dnuhU i that, to get a voluminous report tl;v club '*v:iiib. And tixey tire p ; " ; pared" tV offer I’m sure." , Oil the motion of Councillor Meek''-/ ■ the matter was left over until ne t meeting, wlo-n, it is expected, tion will be .obtainable from delegst-**. to the Counties’ Conferc-aeo as to eos't of surveys and other things connecter it!: road construction and surfacing-