HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1286, 15 November 1911, Page 11

HUTT COUNTY COUNCIL.

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of tho Hutt County Council was held yesterday. There were present: Messrs. W. Galloway, T. Edwards J. Wakcham, J. Wliiteman. M. W. Welch, and W. J. Howell. Mr. Gallowav was elected acting-chairman until the statutory'meeting for the election of a chairman should bo held on tho last Wednesdav of the month. . Mr. P. H. Saxon was appointed ranger for the county at o. salary of £5 per mouth. There wero 31 applications for the position. • Tho engineer reported that the Toads throughout the county wero iu verv good order. Moore's Valley Road in Waraui-o-mata was under repairs, and when theso wero completed, the road would nestl very little attention for a few years. Tho ford at the creek near Mr. Tabuteau's was scouring badly, and had alrer.dy born the cause of two broken axles. Ho would therefore recommend that a 20ft x 3ft. culvert be put in and tho hollow filled up to correspond with the grade of the read on either side. Two new wings had been added to the bridge near the school in Ptokes Valley.- Pipes had alfo been ordered to replace the four wooden culverts on Harvard's Hill, which wre in need of immediate attention. ' Two small bridges on Plightie's Road, Horokiwi RifMue. bad been taken cut and.replaced with pipes The two Government gre.-it works in Whareroa riding were.reported n.s nonvnlef.-'d. and tlrev -wmld bo.inspected by the Public Works Engineer in tho course of the next few days.—Tho report was !>.donfcd. It was decided that under no ciroumsbinces in future should a permit be "ranted to a nortion of the read to protect ft liedce for a irr»ater dlsthan five feet from the boundary. The dog tax registration fee was fiv<>d nt 2s. Gd.', the old rate. The cnntr.i-t f"r the supnlv of collars was sriven to F- G. Reid. of Petow. it the samo rates as. fe" - lf>=t. year—4s. KM. ner dozen fnr sm.i't collars nnrl 5s 3d. fo' larw enllaTS. Tt was doo'ded that /innJiVarions be invited fen- tho' position «f dog-tax collectors for one or more ridings.