LOWER HUTT BOROUGH

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 302, 10 September 1918, Page 9

LOWER HUTT BOROUGH

! MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.; , ■ : ' : ' -—— '. ■ V A meeting of tlio Lower Hutt Bor- : ough Council'was held last evening. : There wero present the Mayor (Mr. h. E-. Eishwoi-th),; Councillors ,W. .Kerr, A. J; "HobbSj, W.' Cottoni'. A. J- West, 1 S. Clendon, J. Braseil, W. Walton, J. I M'Dougall, and W.. Meldrum. , The clerk of the Hutt River Board wrote advising that the council's application wAh respect-to the sinking of ! wells would be brouglit .before tho i board on Wednesday, and that at the same" meeting the council's; representa,i tives who desire to refer,to erosion at - .Melling'would be reecived. • H. Te Pimga wrote asking the court- >' . cil to. hold. a special,.meeting lor thp 3 purpose' "of receiving a- deputation of ' Native landowners to discuss matters' 1 affecting rates. It- was agreed to arl '.range a date for a special meeting as r '.requested; r . .' t • The application of tbe maiiager ot King George's Theatre that the theatre 1 license be altered to allow fur; seating 1100' people was granted after somedis- - V cussion. , „ . .•, . 1 The Borough' Engineer reported that F the gas purchased from Petono durrng the six months to the end of August 3 . was -9,634,000 cubic feet, sliomng an ' increased consumption of 1,»91,00U y cubic-feet over the corresponding period W'the past year. A commencement s has been "made in redecking the t'ot--1" 'ways of. Melling Bridge, but the work , has" had "to 1 lie . suspended temporarily owing to the difficulty of ge ting saut- '* -ahld sizes, of timber.. Proceedings were taken against two drivers of motors-for •' speed limit through.tho