HUTT AND BAY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 69, 15 December 1931, Page 2

HUTT AND BAY NEWS

DUST NUISANCE Penrose Street Complaint ' TAR-SEALING DECISION / For some considerable time the residents of the southern end of Penrose Street, Lower Hutt, have suffered from the dust nuisance owing to their being no sealing surface bn the road.' Last night a deputation from the street waited on the Lower Hutt Borough Council with a request that the gravel portion of the road be sealed. The deputation comprised Messrs. Clendon, Hunter, Martin and Hammond. The deputation, said Mr. Clendon, had come representing the residents and ratepayers of the southern end of Penrose Street to present a petition, and to alleviate’ the difficulties that had to be put up with. The street was bitumen paved as Jar as Sherwood Street, but the rest was in a veryi rough state. Motor-cars rushed through the street leaving a cloud of dust which was very unpleasant. Not only was it a hindrance to gardeners and housewives; it was also a nuisance to the maternity hospital which was in the street. . Penrose Street was one of the main thoroughfares in Lower Hutt. Mr. Hunter pointed out that a proposal had been carried some time ago for the sealing of streets, and Penrose Street was one of the streets included. Even had no proposal been approved, the present circumstances, he contended, : justified the residents in asking for the work to- be done. A tally taken on a normal week day between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., showed that 388 vehicles passed through the street. The street had developed into a through thoroughfare. As far as the cost was concerned, in his opinion, a gravel road carrying the amount of traffic Penrose Street was, would be quite justified for sealing. The traffic, too. was not slow. Money was being blown away that could very well be spent in putting down the sealing. “Penrose Street is a public highway, and a bus route,” said Mr. Hammond. Buses travel down there up to thirty miles an hour. The approximate cost. I understand, would be about £lB a chain. There are 25 chains not tvet sealed. The cost would therefore be about £450. That sum would represent only about threequarters of the rates collected from the street in a year. . ' 1 />7 • The mayor. Mr. W. T. Strand.' said the deputation had made out a good case, and the council would give it every consideration. "We are not able to say without the council’is authority whether this can or cannot ba done/* he said. ‘lt will be gone Into. PenrOse Street, and other streets, would.: have been done long ago, The ratepayers’ actually sanctioned a loan to do it. I believe the right thing to do would have been to seal the road when it was in a perfect condition. Unfortunately the powers that were saw fit to say no, on the principle that for further streets another loan could, be raised. We might as well save ourselves the trouble of asking for loans to-day, although I believe it would be economical from the council’s point of view to do the sealing. The grader is down Penrose Street every ten days to bring the metal back.”- / . . The council considered the request in committee, and decided to carry out the work immediately.

• SERIOUS POSITION Lower Hutt Water Supply HOSE-USERS WARNED O' The position of the water supply in Lower Hutt is very serious, and unless, the residents wilt refrain from hosing, except between 5.30 -and 8.30 p.m. (holding the hose themselves) prosecutions will be enforced. , This course.-was decided upon at last l night’s meeting of the Lower Hutt Borough Council when it was mentioned that on one day last week over a hundred gallons a head were used in the borough. The mayor (Mr. W. T. Strand) said the position was very serious. The pumps had been going for the whole .of the 24 hours. Last Friday 11 million gallons were drawn off, and on Sunday there was a record draw off for such a day of 1,100,000 gallons. There were a number of people getting water to the disadvantage and danger of the outlying districts. Some time ago an appeal was made to residents not to use too much-water in hosing, and it had a wonderful effect. There was ample water for everybody for gardening and domestic purposes if it was not abused. That it was being abused was clear to anyone who travelled round the borough. It had been suggested that people leaving hoses running all night should be prosecuted. He, himself, did not want to follow that course unless the people ignored this appeal for them to be more reasonable. Councillor A. Mcßain, chairman of the works committee, said-he considered the position was very grave, and he had advocated prosecuting those people who made no effort to be reasonable in the use of water for hosing. That a hundred n-allons of water a head of population should be used in one day was outrage°Ult was stated that for the last three or four days the draw off of water in Lower Hutt was a record in the history of the borough. HUTT CENTRAL SCHOOL ] Red Cross Examinations ‘ GARDENS COMPETITION The following are the lists of passes in the Red Cross examinations conducted at the Hutt Central School by Miss Chalmer N.Z.R.N., Miss Hetherington, NXR.N.. and Mrs. Mundy. Standard VI, Intermediate.-—Doreen Grannell, Nellie So.ulsby, Thelma Trlplow,LdiJU Heggie, Kathleen Rowling, Jean Moore, May Miller, Bessie Body, Thelma Dlllistone, Joyce Stowers, Joyce Douthett, Joyce Dlxon, Patricia Hawke, Jean Powell Ina Mor‘ ; an Joyce Clarke, Jean Routley, Ngaire Smith, Eileen Jessop,- Freda Petherlck, Evans’ Jean Henderson, Evelyn Ledger; Betty Lochore, Patricia Harris. „ Standard VI, Elementary.—Claudia UliHams Francis Dean, Richard Roberts, Stanley Jones, Claude Heald, Florence, Har-; rlson, Lloyd Elliott, Douglas Bartley, James Wilson Allck McAulay, Howard Reynolds, James Harding, Earl Hayes, Janies Fordie, leuan Thomson, Eric Reid, Gordon Webley, Leslie Tate, Isohel Page, Joyce Page, Eric King, Thomas Balks, Rex Staples, Frederick Savage, Robert Lewis, William Smith. Frederick Saxton, Ivan Taylor, Robert Mitchell, Doreen Costigan, Jack Bold, George Morris. Standard V, Elementary.—Frederick Alsop, Ellen Thomson, Joan Cowie, Norma Creagh, Mina Leltsli, Barbara Grey, Clarice Pack, Robert Halliburton, Eric Cox, Winnie Hickllng, Mavis Shannon, Patricia Henry, Margaret Wallace, Joan Henry, Edna Oliver, Leonora Mcßeth, James Hardie, Harry Garrett, Hubert Kaye, Walter Thirkell, Mervyn Senior, Gordon Black, Ken. Bennett, lan Vartha. Ena McLean, Iris Moran, Roma Simpson, Jean Bartosh. Raymond Smith, Noel Palmer, Joan Langford, Jean Beattie. ■ Standard V. Elementary.—Joyce Clout. Bettv Parsonage, Horace Astill, Eric Winter Walter Parker, Vivian Pointon, Frank Butler, Jean McKay. Robert Boyd. Vera McKay. Helen Howlett. Betty Jones, Maud Watson. William Smith. John Biggs. V ivian Lawrence, Arthur Voller. Harold Martin. Colin Franks, Benjamin Dallanger, Jean Taylor, Joan Burrell. Owen Bold, George Posselt', Albert Stratton, Phyllis, Burton, J. Drummond, Edward Adams. Albert Clout. Harold Lewis Gordon King, Leslie Smith. A. Cunningham. Billie Treseder. „ , Home Gardens. Merit certificates were awarded to pupils gaining 80 per cent, of the marks or over. The gardens were judged by the instructor of agriculture. The following pupils received certificates: — Vegetables—Vivian Pointon. 1; Eric Winter. 2: Lloyd Elliott and Claude Heald, equal, 3; Thomas Balks, Robert Boyd. George Posselt, Horace Astill, Kenneth Bennett, Noel Palmer. Leslie Tate, Walter Thirkell. Flower Garden. —Lloyd Elliott,