PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 75, 21 December 1907, Page 6

PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

' A meeting of the Borough Council was held last night, when there were present the Mayor (J. W. M'Ewan), and 1 Councillor Nicholson, Southgate, Lodder, Castle, Colquhoun, Shortt, Harding, Smith. Miss C. E. Wolfe, cooking instructress, wrote undertaking to give four demonstrations in January next, for a fee of six guineas and expenses. On tho motion of .Councillor-Locker, seconded by Councillor Nicholson, the offer was accepted, and it was decided to notify the. public of tho holding of tho classes. A letter was recoived from tho Department of Labour, calling attontion to the Shops and Offices .Act, 190 i, Seci 8 and 11 ,iri which it is required 'that a meeting of delegates from all boroughs .and towns shall be held in tho month of January of each year. . • > Mr. D. Garbes sent an account, claiming .£2O, value of one fish, being a fish of a Mediterranean species, which was washed up. on Potone beach some mouths ago, and was sent to the Wellington Museum for the purpose of having a cast made. Tho Council object to paying anything for the fish. > With reference to the Council's complaint regarding the ditch at White's Line, the Town Clerk of Lower Hutt. wrote to the offectthat any nuisance will bo attended to when the Hutt drainage scheme is being carried out. Un Councillor Nicholson's motion further consideration of tho matter was held ove*. The Borough Solicitor (Mr. R. C; Kirk) wrote advising that he had exhausted every effort to induce the Mayor-of the Lower Hutt to'have tho . gas purchase dispute referred to arbitration. Mr. Kirk also, advised that lie had obtained all signatures 'except one of the Natives interested in the transference of. Section 1 Hutt District.- Efforts to trace the mi6s'ing native had so far failed.

Another communication wis received from the''Borough Solicitor regarding the "catchment area. Mr. Kirk asked forinstructions giving him permission to protect by caveats the titles of the several lessees affected by the bill. On the Mayor's motion the permission requested was granted. , ' j Messrs. ' Baker Bros., auctioneers, informed tho Council that Mrs. Colquhoun agreed to waive all claims for compensation, and reserved to herself the right to removo wh,cn called upon any building standing on the I 'land in Hector's Lane. 1 - As the result of a conference between the Council and the Gear Company, tho following conclusions were arrived at:—(1) That the Gear Company will not forego their claim of ,£4OOO for direct route; (2) that the Company .will give iand required for alternate route free of cost; (3) that, if the. Council will grant a permit i for a building to cost about .£IO,OOO to bo erected on land adjacent to the main works, and in accordance with conditions laid down by the Department of Health, tho Company will gradually cease operations at tho manuro worlis, and will give tho land required for tho direct route freo of cost, and withdraw opposition to their land being brought into 1 tho boundaries of the Borough,