LOWER HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1912, Page 3

LOWER HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL

The fortnightly meeting' of the Lower Hutt Borough Council was held last evening. There were present the Mayor (Mr. E. P. Bunny), and Councillors Knight, Hodgine, Kempthorne, Clendon, Roots, Ball, and Hobbs. Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., wrote, asking the. council, if it approved, to pace a resolution in support of his proposal that local bodies should have the right to appoint independent Sinking ,Fund Commissioners. The matter was deferred, co that the Mayor and Councillor Hodgins could make enquiries. The Railway Department indicated the terme on which it would grant permission to lay a water-pipe under the railway line at Lower Hutt. These terms were agreed to. The Bank of New Zealand advised that the overdraft limit for the District Fund Account was, reduced from £12,000 to £7000, in view of the lodgment to that account of the sum of £5000, and requested to be notified when the deposit had been repaid, and as to whether the arranged limit is to be reinstated. An application from a ratepayer for a refund of rates overpaid to the council laet year was refused, on the ground that it wae not legal to make a re•fund. The St. James and Hutt District Cricket Clubs were granted the uee of the Recreation Ground during the eeason. In reference to the eastern drainage, section 5, the engineer • (Mr. W. J. Roche) stated in his fortnightly report that up to the 2nd infit. 5£ chains of the main road had been laid, at a coat of £1071 Is sd. or £128 Is 5d in excess of estimate. He reported that tho present work was being done under the estimate. In reference to the payment for drainage connections to new house*, which have hitherto been paid out of the various loans, the engineer stated that it had made tho work more cw-tly than the original estimates, as there were now more houses in almost every stroet than when the work • wa* commenced. When these loan moneys wcro expended, he enquired, were these connections to be a charge on the District Fund, or wore thoso who built to be charged with the cost of the connection in "future. It was reeolved that provision For future drainage connections is to be made as the occasion arises.