HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 590, 19 August 1909, Page 8

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Special Reporter.) . . PETONE EASTERN DRAINAGE. Tho Fetono Borough Council.has prepared an. ■ .interesting-' report;bn .tho financial position of ■ the eastern,drainage'.works. The. latest avail-; abls figures ,are up to June ;30, as the - July returns -, have not yet been; prepared.'; ; ' : . "The, works::' done,",: the;- report ■; commences; "include tke':dutlet\ concrete; disch'arge'^culvc'rt,. delivery; ,'chanibe'r:. frohi"'pumps, . pump.[ well,; storage/and screening wells,, : yalve:ohamber andcon6rete";,oulyert: to.'lTourth Street. .'The esti-'' mated cost .was iOs. : - The..streets reticii-. . lated; include; Fourth, Manchester, and . Patrick' 1 Streets, part'-of..High:Street, and: part- of. Wil- ; liain Street, at an estimated cost of X'l2ol'2s.; ' ! total, :\£23so' 18s.,"'Tho- expenditure was .£3119 ' | : .12s.' 3d.—a difference betwoerV the, estimate -andtho factual; cost'of ' 3d!-f--But;;froiil>thiS' latter amount must'bo deducted the cost of ; i:materials, and proportional cost ;of plant, which -in due course.' will be'/used /fbr' .works.'nbt! yet; touched.'- The .itßmß'',ara;; ; as:fellow:—Pipes -oh.', - hand for .completion., of works,' J!549; ; less final payment-due, but;not paid, leaving:.£3so;' engine; belting, pump,* half cost -i£6o; sheas, half/ -'cost,. J!20;- - .:Kmber;. half to'olfei, and -' other-'jilant, half-; cost, '• X4S;'i'tfital/,;. contingency '.furiiJ^ias. beenfdrKtm'^upon to': the extent of £HS ■ I^j.l3d. Tho itenis sitated.' thisyinoliided extra timber, wiucn'allowed of a. grea.ter.:nnraborvef'::men"jbeingi em-; '; ployed,; concrete; .manhole.; req.uited jbwing 'itar . diversion of a 'drain ill cohhectibri, with' Govern- .; ment: property, 'eitra concrete undor in. i bad ' ground,- and '"a greater number -of- .hours of; pumping than.-was..autioipated.'-i-The'.woi-ksio: ■' complete are. estimated to cost .C 5191 25.,. less- ' mentioned." leaving; This; ' sum includes street ■ and cottage,.nnd-'-would'-leaye. i£G10,".55.; 9d.' : ;for, ;' contihpencies.. Th(i : larger, jportion,of .the.heavier., \ work,; hris . lieen ; ; 'dealt ..with, -nhd;.' the .Engineer. :, had 'every,Teasofr'tp:;Wjicwe jthatctKo'';THto)o. of; .' tho - works, mil * be.v carried ,on ; withinthe loan'- • and grant moneys." ' .;' '/■, ■-' y - .

RCHOOi COMIIITTEE V 804.RD ' Further trouble-is brewing Uiv regard'-fq. edur cational matters'in Petbne; Ah-appointment to the staff bf the Pctone 'School i.i. pending;'tini tho Education Board has - only- submitted one' name , to the'-committee;: instead; of, four, as. is; usually .done.y.ltVis:do'rite'nded that one name dbes'not constitute a''"lisfc"' i The, committee-is;of opinion, that the,board's action 'is..illegal;'; and,it is:advised'-that tho point c'aiibe tested without, great'expense at the Supremo Court.. ■'A: meetin» of; the committee' will he held shortly, and jit is. likely , that' this • course will be adopted; It will certainly be.thoroughly discussed., -■ - /;■: y

It has happened on several .occasions , that Court sittings ■ have..beeii.held at Hutt and: I'etone: on. the isauie /day.., This arrangement cause-sV great deal .of inconvenience to the'legal profession and others concerned, and representations .on the ['subject 'have been ■ made to tho visiting; magistrate, Dr. -.M'Arthur, : who; has directed thatin. future, tho sittings: at. tho'vtwo.' places mentioned are to be held on different.' days. .■;:'•*',/ ... v