HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 611, 14 September 1909, Page 5

HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

'/■if : r-iv Last', night's '.meeting of, the. -Htittl'limtoflft'' ;Councir w'asi 'attendod by the . Mayor (Mr. E.P.;.. Bunny), - and ■ Councillors Anson, Pearce, Hayes, Barlow,-'jMacttkill, .and; Baldwjn." ■: '; r 'VLmT^.''ofC'abi^nM>.vasV.;'gi i atited -Coimoillori" Clere,' Kempthorno,. and iMowbray.; : ; iy':. ;. ■Messrs.; Pitcaithly' and Company wrote -in - further reference to';their proposal .to . takei 1 jover ;the council's.'interest .111, No. : 4 ! . shingle j area, and suggesting .that tho. terms should bo modified to the; effect' that '.local, residents ,be .allowed to ,take..s-hingle ;.at: 4d. per. yard ,Only. .fbr;:,ordinary i private ■ pnrpdsas, such is ;paths, etc.,' and' Knot; for ;contracts. for road-making or ' filling.-::' It. ifas :dccidcd, after discussion, -.to accept tho, terms,-provided that a limit of fid. per yard to contractors bo imposed. ; j. Mr.''A.l : p.'.Knight ,asked for pornlission ; to' drain.», his .' property! l into tho., drain''recently. '■ taken ■: over,by - the-. council through Mr. - Eiddi•'ford's -property;!:!. The. conncil-/;decided to' inform;',tho writer .that-,; the; matter, must : remain in 'abeyance -until, the Middlemarch drain .has been; completed.',, •-- ;r ■. 1; ;. ■-. '". Mr.' ; O.V T. Baigent' drew 'attention' to" the :cOnditibh .of the open- drain at"the back 'of/his isection -in.': King s Road,j and. asked that, steps be: taken..to i,have the drain/cleaned out. It 'was .decided'.that,, providing the owners agree' ,as'ltoA paying '• the 'cost, .the council; 1 would 'do'the work. . - :

; . Tho .seoretary to tho trustees of Taitn'public : .cemetery proposed that a joint, committee, con- : sitting'of,":sa7,;t'wo members froni each of the .Iwrough ' councils-Of-'Lower. ,Hutt ■■ aid Petone, ;ahd from,tho Hntt'.Coujity Council; be set up to mahage the cemetery, in order ;to establish of municipal control, aid to'cnable ■the local bodies .legally. to ■ contribute to tho .cost "'of: carrying oil the cemetery', and (for'.- reasons purely.;geographical) that the-Mayor and' councillors of-.the .Lower'/Hutt-Bordugh should be, .the" trustees of the cemetery. • Consideration of the proposal was.deferred. j