SUBURBAN COUNCILS. PETONE BOROUGH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 2

SUBURBAN COUNCILS. PETONE BOROUGH.

The Mayor (Mr. J. W. M'Ewan) and Councillors Short, Harding, Soulhgate, Brocklebajik, Piper, List, Jones, and Trueman attended the ordinary meeting of the Petone- Borough. Council last evening. The Lower Hutt River Board intimated that it would accept the sum of £400 offered by the council for the land required on Gear Island for bridge approach purposes subject to conditions as to grading approach, reservation of the right of the river board to at any time have a-ceess by rail or tramway through the embankment forming the approach to the main portion of the island, the council to fence both sides of the approach from the bridge to the western side of the western branch of the river, and provide gates at a point selected by the board for its access by road. The board approved the suggested arrangement, and the- Mayor and engineer were authorised to arrange details. The Chief Health Officer wrote in connection with the control of infectious diseases. He advised that under section 5 of the- Hospitals Amendment Act, th© responsibility of controlling infections diseases now devolves on the hospital boards, which for such purposes become local authorities within the meaning of The Public Health Act. The letter added that until the Hospital Board should have provided the necessary machinery to give effect to amendments of the law, the council should continue to act as at present with Tegard to any infectious diseases that might occur in the borough. — The information was received. The New Zealand State Guaranteed Advances Office notified the council that the first instalment payable on account of the council's mortgage of £6550 will be due on 13th February, and the instalment of the mortgage of £800 on the same date. The St. David's A.F.C., Petone, applied for the use of a football ground on the Recreation Ground, for the coming season, at a rental of £6. Councillor Piper moved that the resolution, passed at last meeting, adopting the report of the engineer upon a complaint by a ratepayer in reference to failure of gas supply, be rescinded. Councillor Piper maintained that the report was incorrect. , After a lengthy and heated discussion Councillor Piper's motion was defeated by six votes to two. The engineer, Mr. Cook, reported tnat plans for conveniences at the recreation ground had been prepared. The erection of the eastern pumping plant was now nearly completed, and arrangements would, it was thought, be so far forward as to permit of trials next week with a view to handing over the plant. The engineer recommended that the owners of properties be now notified to make connections, within a given time, with the sewers.