PETONE AMD HUTT NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 149, 24 June 1904, Page 6

PETONE AMD HUTT NEWS.

The question of increasing the Mayors salary, which at prrtwnt Mands nt £25, ■vros bi-ouglit up at lust night's meeting of the Petone Borough Council by Councillor Bowles, who contended that it wan altogether out of proportion to the «yae of the borough and to the importance . of the work the Mayor had to perform. He did not suppose the £25 met the expenses tho Mayor was put to. It was pointed out that, tho salary cmdd not bo altered this y*ni\ nnd tho mutter hud to remain in abeyance. , . , „ The annual M»ial . gathering of adhcrfitt* of Ht. Ua-viciV» Presbyterian Church, Pctone. v;<* held !a»rt. night, ami was largely attwwlcd. The Rev. A. Thomsoji pruskUjd. Jtcin* to an excellent, though length y, programme were contributed by Mesdatm-s Liudh.iy, M 4 K«an. Misses UpJuun, fei»t, P.tt<ns<!ii, Htoveus. Rumgay. mid M'Kmnon. Messrs J. M'Kinnon, rjpence, Xicol, Brydon, M'DoiwW, Adani.<*, Feist. Galloway, Lindsay, M 'Arthur, Robertson , nud "Wiiford, and Master Alkm Kjinkin danced a Highland lluig. Mi«s WKmnon and Mis. ir.urio were the v.t-•oinpiini.-ts. It was mentioned by Councillor >ucfnrhine h\s\ night that the .unbuilt of gat* arodueed from a ton of coiil al the P.ftne Gasworks now was fiom nine to ten thousand feet. a*» ag.iin.st thirUvii ttious.md feet wlun tho works wvro Ktnrte<l. ft was not eWar whetlwr this sub.stiultial OWfcmice was duo t« alleicd quality of the cent or to thy erv.itic meter at thetrorks, whow capacity lia«» been outgrown. With ch,u-;wU-riJitic <«iithuvia«:n therm- ■ ntial gathering of tbu local branch of the Salvation Auny was celebrated at IV ton© lofl night. The Mayor (Mr. U. London) who p'nwded during the early part of the meeting, exposed his sympathies with tho aspirations of the Army, and s-iid Hi it in other co;tutri'f> he brtd wittkf.mh! i(,« good work in nnielioralh)gn;onditions thai wen- foittuiak'lv .sc:uudy approximated iv this country. Stnff-L<tptam [Uml delivered an olo(]uent and moving «<Mr.s'->.enmu<.rntiiig the dift.?mir brrnieheH of the gooxl work the Army was doing. - The Mi.yor, on having to leave the- meeting, expressed r*gtvt that there were not maro pre.sent outride tlw Army, for tho H<:itf-Ci)plain*.« address mu?t have moved -Itlwtii to practical sympathy. Vocal and Instrumental items were then rendered, Staif -C.iptain Kust conducting, nnd tv most enjoyable evening was spent. One of the contributor!* was Rergt. Kenworthy, who •wrjs for 25 jears an operatic singer, and ■who give aVn'o of his own composition.

A phase of tho Mokiu land case is likely to come- before the Supiome Court in a 1 few day«. The matter was menHoned ih Cb.'imbcix (cx-d.vy. and lemoved into Ac Supieme Cinur, to be hen id before Mr. Justice Kdwuids and Mr. Justice Cooper, tfittirij: in Banco.