GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 198, 10 January 1913, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE HUTT ROAD. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Thursday. For a period of throe weeks in October last the Railway Department took a tally of the traffic on the Hutt Road for the purpose of enabling the authorities to fix the proportion of the cost of construction and maintenance to be paid by local bodies. During the three weeks the road was used wholly or partly 216,5G5 times by vehicles of all descriptions, equal to use of the whole road by 12,364 vehicles, including motors. The result of the tally shows that Welington City Council should bear nearly onehalf of the cost.

l UNUSUAL SHIP'S ARTICLES. ! Wellington, Thursday. j Some trouble was occasioned to-dnv j over the sailing of the Kurow for AusI tralia, The articles drawn up would { have meant that the men would not ; be entitled to sign off at Wellington if ] the vessel had cargo for other 'port*. (The Union Company and the Seamen's 1 Union had a conference, and the difi'ij culty was satisfactorily overcome. The j boat will sail to-morrow . PUBLIC TRUST COMMISSION . 2 Wellington, Thursday. I The Commissioners appointed to' roJ port on the working of the Public Trust j Office held an informal meeting to-day, | and will hold their first business sitI ting to-morrow.