149 STATE HOUSES UNDER WAY

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 2, 28 September 1937, Page 13

149 STATE HOUSES UNDER WAY

Lower Hutt Position

FIVE CONTRACTS FOR 136 HOUSES TO BE LET

There are 149 State houses in course of construction at Lower Hutt and 362 men engaged on the nine contracts now being proceeded with. Five contracts are vet to be let. The nine contracts already taken are for 21, 22, 23, 19, 10, 20, 12, 17, and five houses respectively. The total number of houses to be erected under {he scheme at Lower Hutt is 285, leaving 136 houses in the balance of five unlet contracts—an average per contract of 27. One linn is handling all the contracts which are under way, Of the 149 houses under construction the frames of 97 are standing, and some of these are near completion. Work Started in May. No date for the completion of the first batch of houses is yet available. _ The work was started on May 1.2. Practically all houses to - be erected on the western side of the Waterloo Station has been started. A big subdivision is under way near the Waiwetu School. Four new streets from Cambridge Terrace into Hardy Street and Waiwetu Road are being formed by subcontractors to the principal contractors, the. Fletcher Construction Company. The streets in which there will be State houses when the whole scheme at Lower Hutt is completed are Wainui, Bell, Waterloo, Knight’s and Waiwetu Hoads, Collingwood, Trafalgar, Vincent, Grenville, Douglas, Brook, Creasy, Hardy, Mahoe, and Birch Streets, Guthrie Avenue, Cambridge and Oxford Terraces, and Totara Crescent. There will be 85 houses in the block which is centred in the new subdivision. These will be practically opposite the new Waterloo School to be erected by the Wellington Education Board. The contracts to be let are for houses in the Bell Hoad and Riverside Drive area backing on to the railway workshops. The State L'epartment of Housing has a building overseer, Mr. R. W. Gunn, stationed on the job at Lower Hutt. GOLDEN WEDDING AT LOWER HUTT Mr. and Mrs. J. Hosie Mr. and Mrs. James Hosie, Tama Street, Lower Hutt, were guests of honour at a party given by their family at Tua Rua Hall ou Saturday evening in celebration of their parents’ golden wedding. Mrs. Hosie’s frock was of violet celanese and lace, her daughter, Mrs. F. Gauiliu, was in blue velvet, and her other daughters, Misses Eunice and Myrtle Hosie, wore lavender taffeta and black and white satin respectively. Miss Jean Lowe was in pink georgette, and Miss Harriett Wart wore pink and silver. Mr. Skitrup, an old friend of the family, proposed Mr’ and Mrs. Hosie’s health, Mr. J. Hosie proposing the toasts of the bridesmaids, Mrs. B. Flynn, Wanganui, and Mrs. A. Fife, Dannevirke, and the best man, Mr. Isric Booth, who were all present. Mr. Booth responded and Mr. Hector Hosie, on behalf of the family, thanked their friends for their gifts and good wishes. The family’s gift was a handsome clock. The tables were decorated with flowers in pink and mauve tones, and bulbs, and the cake was white and silver. Mrs. Hosie was presented with a bouquet by an old friend, Mrs. Gaudin. Items were given by Mrs. Bellam and pupils, Mrs. Edwards, Mr. H. Fiton, and Master Hosie. Mr. L. Collinson, on behalf of the guests, thanked the hostesses for the enjoyable evening. Telegrams were received from all over New Zealand and from Miss Mavis Hosie, who is at present in Australia. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Skitrup (Napier), floral georgette; Mrs. A. Fife, .black and blue; Mrs. B. Flynn, brown floral marocain; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hosie, green marocain; Mrs. J. Stewart, black crepe de chine; Mrs. J. Bradey (Dannevirke). Mr. and Mrs. Jamieson, Mr. and Mrs. Fiton, Mr. and Mrs. Irvine, Mr. and Mrs. E. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Watt, Mrs. Lowe, Mrs. L. Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. E. Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Paton, Mr. and Mrs. Barret, Mr. and Mrs. Rudman, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. McKnight, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Gray. Mr. and Mrs. O’Leary, Mr, and Mrs. L. Rodgers, Mr. and Mrs. G. Rodgers, Mr. and Mrs. Boykett, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. R. Furniss, Misses J. Barrett, Doreen Lowe, M. Boykett, K. Bruce, B. Nelson, T. Forsythe, A. Bellamy, M. Hill, P. Delaney, N. Fraser, Messrs. B. Kyles, L. Scott. Jim Hosie, A. Hosie, H. Hosie, B. Boykett. F. Freeman, W. Williams. N. Hosie, H. Dyke, L. Fleet. PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS Warning Of Approach Suggested "According to the road code people should be able to use pedestrian crossings without any fear of being knocked down, but in the case of an accident a driver’s first defence would be that he did not know the crossing was there,” said Cr. A. Macfarlane at the meeting of the Petone Borough Council last night. He was referring particularly to the pedestrian crossing in Jackson Street. On his suggestion it was decided to recommend to the Commissioner of Transport that some means be devised of warning motorists that they were approaching a pedestrian crossing, before they actually reached it. TRANSPORT LICENSING Petone Taxi Drivers And Carriers Taxi drivers and town carriers in Petone should not be brought under the provisions of the Transport Licensing Act, the borough council considers. The council last night decided to advise the Commissioner of Transport that it adhered to its previous decision that the proposed control should be confined to the metropolitan areas. The outside areas, such as the Petone borough, should be excluded, as greater control was already exercised than was possible in metropolitan areas.

Ko.ro Koro Road. To make Koro Koro road safer for motorists a further 17 chains of fencing is to be done by the Petone Borough Council, at a cost of £3B.