LOWER HUTT AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 14, 11 October 1927, Page 16

LOWER HUTT AFFAIRS

BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETING

The fortnightly meeting ot tho Lower Huft Borough Council was held last nighL Present were: The Mayor ULr. W. 'l. Strand), Councillors A. Mcßain, vv. G. Meldruiu, E* Waldie, Sir Alexander Heberts, F. Campbell, A. Grierson, and A. J. Hobbs. Considerable discussion took place oyer a letter from Hare and Sons, in which they applied for the support of the couuoil in their proposal to provide a tenminute bus service between Lower Hutt and Petone. The following resolution, moved by Councillor F. Campbell, and seconded by Councillor Roberts, was carried: ‘That tho council cannot support the application of two bus proprietors fcr a ten-minute bus service;, but, if all the proprietors can agree to a five-minute service, the council will give the lattei BUggestion its support.” • . The Land and Survey Department forwarded a plan of Kauri Street, in the Mutt Valiev Settlement. It stated that tho Hospital Board had consented to the taking of a portion of its property for the purpose of laying out this street, and asked that the council should pass the necessary resolution agreeing to the laud so taken being proclaimed under section 12 of the Land Act. and the endorsement of tho necessary consent on tho tracing. Tho Lower Hutt Progress League conveyed. by letter, to the Mayor and councillors, their appreciation of the action taken in acquiring the necessary land for widening Laings' Road at its junction with the main street. They also congratulated the council on acquiring it for the borough so advantageously, and at a cost much below that anticipated for such an important corner. The Baths Committee reported: Owing to tho arranged maximum ol fifty lor school classes being extended beyond reasonable limits last season, vho committee has advised tho schools that the classes are not to exceed fifty scholars, but an allowance of 10 per cent over and above that number will be permitted, and should any greater .number attend any one class, the surplus must bo paid for at ordinary admission rates. A meeting of representatives of the schools has been arranged for. in order to draw up a time-table for the school classes. Owing to several complaints last year as to the coldness of the water, the committee is making inquiries into the possibility of raising the temperature 5 degrees to 10 degress.” . The borough engineer reported, in conoection with tho now Hutt bridge, that progress had been as follows: “SeventyBvo piles cast, 36 parapet panels cast, 190 small and 202 large footpath slabs cast, totalling approximately 1600 square feet, rhe first piles cast are now ready for driving, but the contractor has not yet been able to arrange for a pile-driver. The final position of the bridge has been fixea, and the centre lines of the -Jiles in the two abutments pegged on Iho ground. The telephone . and telerranh lines across the river have been titered to clear the bridge site, and arrangements have been made to alter the Electric power lines eo that they will not be fouled by the derrick when pileflriving operations are in progress. The contractor has collected timber for temporary staging, aud plans have been prepared for the erection of tho falsework.”