HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1318, 22 December 1911, Page 5

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

IFrom Our Special Correspondent! Yesterday morning at 11.30 o'clock a fire destroyed Mr. Alfred Feist's six-room-ed house at Lower* Hutt. Mrs. Foist was preparing tho midday meal, when, opening a cupboard near the hot-water boiler, she found the wholo place in ilanies. A prompt alarm was given, and the brigade was quickly on tho ;.pot, but fanned by a strong breeze the lire soon enwrapped end demolished the building. The house was insured in the London, Liverpool, and Globe office for £500, and the contents for ,£IOO. Mr. Feist is a heavy loser, as tho house contained a piano, an organ, and ,n lot of valuable furniture. . Mr. J. Valentine, leading fitter at tho Petoiie Railway Workshops, has been promote-! to the position of foreman fitter at Whangarei. At lunch, hour yesterday Mr. Valentino was made the recipient of a handsome gentleman's dressing-caso and a Mossriel rug. Mr. H. Brooks, acting workshop manager, spoke in complimentary terms of the esteem in which Mr. A'alentinc was held. The monthly mooting of tho Hutt River Hoard was held last evening. Present: Messrs. Stevens, Petcrkin, Pinny, Sladdon, and Roots. The overseer reported that tho boom groyne at AVhito's Line had been completed at a cost of ,C 75 Bs. sd. A shorter one, costing J278 13s. Gd., bad also been erected at a short distance below the former. The erection of No. 17 groyne was being proceeded with. Accumulation of shingle in the rive.r-bcd between Moiling Bridge and AVhito's Line was causing a menace to the banks at various points. Two boom groynes should be nut in to obyinto danger ut Kingdon's and Mcllins Bridge, at 'an estimated cost of .ran. Tho new punts, derrick, and snui.ll boat for the construction of groynes in the upper' district had been constructed. There had been a noticeable riso in tho level of (he river lied in the nast two years.-*" Adopted. The Hutt Borough Council wrote, asking the board lo Si-ant a rebate of a portion of the rates nayable on the Recreation Grounds.—The board decided not In accede to the request, a.s the council collects a large amou'ilnf rate? from the board for hurt for which no rental was received. Tho los-seo of Gear Island was granted permission to sub-let a portion of his hold-, jag for a market garden.