HUTT COUNTY AFFAIRS
MEETING OF COUNCIL.
The adjourned meeting of the Hutt County Council was held this morning. Councillor Wakeman (chairman) presided ; there were also_present Councillors Welch, Howell, Whiteman, Galloway, and Edwards.
In his monthly report, the Inspector of Works (Mr. J. W. Cudby) stated: "Since -my last report, the road line fence through Mr. Grace's property on the Waimii-o-mata Lower Valley-road has been completed. The total length of the fence is 168 chains, and the cost, including seven gates, is £284 12s 3d. Several hundred-yards of rock is being quarried and carted to Pahautanui township, to be crushed as soon as the plant is (available. Thirty-two feet of 4l£inch concrete pipe has been ordered; for the boundary road • between Waikanae and Reikorangi. Four hundred feet of totara has been ordered for Donovan's Bridge at Otaihanga, also 1100 feet for the bridge at Maungakotukutuku Valley, neav tho Game Farcn. At the same time 2700 feet was ordered for the Pahautanui Bridge. A 60-feet pipe culvert has been put in inear the top of Horseshoe Bend in Mungaroa riding." A letter was received from tho Hutt River Board thanking the council for its action in planting willows near Silverstream. •
(Proceeding.)
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 91, 17 April 1917, Page 8
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199HUTT COUNTY AFFAIRS Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 91, 17 April 1917, Page 8
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