CARTERTON NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 February 1913, Page 5

CARTERTON NEWS

Our Oi.cn> Correspondent

The monthly meeting of the-Car-terton Borough .Council was held on Tuesday evening, .when the general account was reported mi di. £o3o 2s 7d; Accounts amounting to £36? 13s Id'were passed for payment... During January the?) quantity of gas registered by consumers' meters wa-s 228, iCO cubic feet, gas engine and retort house 8600 cubic feet; street lamps consumed 5265 cubic feet. It was decided to put a foot -bridge over the water race on Lincoln road. The overseer was instructed to engage a man to cut all overhanging trees on _ Higli street, and trim them to a height' ol nine feet clear from the footpath, and charge costs with 10 per cent- atided to owners or occupiers.. The attention of the ranger is to be drawn to the .numbers of'stock wandering round the. streets at night. Notice of motion was given to move, at next meeting of the Council that an estimate hn procured for the.' work of reducing the Broadway footpath to 12ft, kerbing. channelling and metalling the nath. and two rews of trees planted the full length- of the road. It was decided to hold a special meeting on Monday, March 10th. to certify to the district electors' roll. It was decided to enforce a dog registration fee. charges to be 2s Od for working dog;.-> fsheej) and cattle) and 10s per annum for others, pups up to six months to he free. It was reoorted new ferro-concreto bridge on the Dal field road would he completed hy April Ist.