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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1912, Page 6

As the next ordinary meeting night of the Lower Hutt Borough Council falls on Dominion Day, the 23rd hißt., tho meeting will be held the following evening. Connections with the Hutt borough water supply are steadily increasing, the number being 929. There have been 624 permits issued under the borough drainage and sanitary bylaws. This week promises *to be a heavy one for the Blackball Coal Company (telographs a Greymouth correspondent), arrangements having been made to snip a total export of nearly 6000 tonß. Residents of Lowef Hutt will in future have tb keep an eye to their gas accounts, as should they be more than a month in arrear in regard to payments it will be a case of the "light that failed 1 ' when they go to turn on the gas some evening. The Town Clerk was instructed at last night's meeting of the Borough Council to disconnect the meters of those whose accounts are more than a month in arrear. A. suggestion by the Hutt Borough engineer (Mr. W. J, Roche) that in future before any drainage permits are issued by him the borough inspector shall inspect all drainage work required and submit the specifications, is to bo put into operation, and the bylaw is to be altered accordingly, The fee for inspection is to be ss. The engineer stated that the scheme would not entail any further cost to the householder than at present. At a meeting of the Miramar Borough Council yesterday afternoon a special rate of ohe-halfpenny in the £ was struck to provide interest on special loan of £18,000. The purposes of the loan are : (1) the construction and installation of works for an electric power tmp« ply and light undertaking 5 (2) the provision of tramway cars and shedsi Tho term of the loan is twenty-six years. It is not intended 'to levy the whole rate unless it is necessary. The old-time proverb, " It's an ill' wind that blows nobody any good." is just now being exemplified at Waikino (where the Waihi strikers recently dogged the free labourers or Arbitfatiomsts). The Waihi Telegraph says:— "The invasion of Federationists into Waikino during the past few days, and now the incursion of a small army of police, has caused quite a transformation of affairs there. The butcher, the grocer, the baker, the draper, and the news agents are all doing extra business. Trade has looked up in the erstwhile labour-bereft township." Good results have been given by the new centrifugal pump installed by the Lower Hutt Borough Council, which has been working for about a fortnight. The engineer (Mr. W. J. Roche) stated in his fortnightly report, submitted to the council last evening, that he had not been able to extend it fully yet, as he found the inlet tanks leak a little and so prevent getting direct suction 011 the wells. When the tanks are quite airtight he had no' doubt, stated the engineer, that at its highest Bpeed 960 revolutions per minute, and 900 gallons per minute, as specified, would be obtained. Farmers wish to be placed on the same footing as mariners with regard to weather forecasts. Accordingly the Gov ernment was approached by the Farmers' Union Conference to that end. A reply has been received from the Post and Telegraph Department in which the secretary of the conference (Mr. Jack) is informed that the Department will Undertake the service on payment for the telegram and reply of one shilling. "The arrangement under which masters of vessels are permitted to send a message and receive a reply for 6d is a special one, made in consideration of the magnitude of the interests involved, and the constant difficulties which attend those interests. Tin's low charge does not pay the Department." Grim stories are being related about the difficulties which people experience in securing houses in convenient suburbs (Bays the Melbourne Argus). "To Let" Bigns in Borne suburbs are as uncommon as furniture vans in Central Australia. A year ago, many people in search of homes signed agreements to rent houses before the foundations were laid. To-day there are comparatively few vacant allotments in tho suburbs handiest to Melbourne. In a house in a southern suburb recently, while a man lay dying, a number of people called upon the wife with offers to rent the ! house should she decide to give up her home when the end came. Only a day or two ago a young man lost his wife, and scarcely was the funeral over bofore the bereaved husband was besieged with enquiries as to whether lie intended to give up housekeeping. Recently the Mayor of Greymouth represented to Sir Arthur Guinness the serious occurrences which would follow the stoppage of the work on the Otira tunnel. Sir Arthur, after interviewing members of the Government, telegraphed: "I understand you are calling a meeting of representatives of local bodies to-day to urge that the Government should continue the construction of the Otira tunnel. I desire to state for the information of the meeting that ever since the contractors petitioned Parliament, through M1 1 . Seddqn, stating their inability to carry out their contract, I have been in constant communication with members of the Cabinet with regard to the continuation of the work, and, from information I possess, I feel satisfied there is no cause for taking any action to urge the Government to con* tinue the work, as I have every confidence in the Government continuing the construction of the tunnel at the greatest possible speed, should the contractors throw up their contract." Last evening Sir Arthur Guinness received the follow^ ing telegram from the Mayor of Greymouth : " At a meeting of representatives of local bodies held this afternoon, re Otira tunnel contract, your telegram was read and the following resolution unanimously carried— •namely : 'That you be thanked for your attention to this matter in the past, and be requested to continue to represent to the Government the great importance of the work not only to the Dominion as a whole, but also to Westland and Canterbury in particular, and to urge the vigorous prosecution of this work. The meeting was pleased to notice from your telegram that you have every confidence that the Government will see that the work is carried on. Should you consider public meeting necessary to strengthen your hands, I shall call same. Delegates from borough, county, harbour, hospital, Education boards, chamber commerce, and other local organisations were present." The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. W. 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