PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 465, 25 March 1909, Page 6

PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The fortnightly meeting of the' Petono Borough Council was held last evening, and was attended by Mr. J. W. MTJwan (Mayor) and Councillors Short, Young, Smith, Harding, Southgate, Castle, and Colquhoun. Councillor A. Coles was granted six weeks' leave of absence.

Ike borough solicitor (Mr. R. C. Kirk) wrote that Messrs. Thompson and Stewart, lessees of some of the Koro Koro catchment area land, objected to pay tho solicitor's costs for release ot the council's caveat in respect of tho dealing with their property in December last—The council agreed to pay tho costs. ' G. A. Dolling made application for the use of a section m Jackson Street, lately used for sanitary works.—Rental was fixed at £1 per month. r

■ The General 'Manager for Railways, renlvins to a complaint that Kelly's Lane had been blocked on a recent Sunday, stated that this was due to the neglect of the Gear Company's men, who had omitted to clear tho line after discharging sheep wagins —Received. Robert Thompson and H. B. Stewart, Normaudale Settlement, offered for .£SOO the lease of a section and house in tho Belmont Survey District. The annual rental payable to the Government was .£3fi.—Received of^S^'irt 50 ' f Poton f. applied for refund ot &i 13s. Id., water rate overcharge.-Ovor-charge, if any, to bo refunded. The borough solicitor (Mr. R. C. Kirk) wrote that the special case argued in tho Supreme Court some time ago, had merely decided that the council had. the right to retain its wate pipes on the strip of land occupied by Messrs Barber and Co., and to enter thereon for the purpose of repairing. It was essential that the council should have a right-of-way over he land, ?n d.a right to keep its tclephonTposts and wires m position. A reply had been re! V?n£ f ff oD l ?h 3r t Bar > r and Co.'s solicited to the effect that tho privileges asked for would •be granted upon payment of .£250. His S to the council was_to offer to submit to private arbitration the price to bo paid for the pr?vi! leges.-Tlie Mayor was asked to report as to the t rcnunng of telephone posts to Xr pro"' • Til0 w l i tt V ? Ue F Tramway Board wrote asking whether, in tho event of a tram m- ± tern being laid down in tho Hutt Va U- 7hl council would be prepared to lay the hole of a. line-to connect with another from Petono JVharf via the Esplanade and Buick Stropr-prrL-t^'l ? t t rS^ tion o£ Jacksm Street e anl psssP was referred to the incoming council leUw