PETONE AFFAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1924, Page 10

PETONE AFFAIRS

MEETING OF BOROUGH

COUNCIL.

The ' fortnightly meeting of the^Petone Borough Council was held yesterday. Present : Mr. J. W. M'Ewan (Mayor), Councillors A. G. Steffensen, V. Jacobson, R. Jones, H. Jay, \V. Hay, G. Cook, and W. P. Coles.

Tho Lower Hutt Borough Council asked if the council would send two representatives on a deputation to the Wellington Hospital ' Board to request the establishment of a maternity hospital in the Hutt Valley.

The Mayor said this was the second deputation to the board ou the question and it appeared to him that as the board had not yet established a maternity hospital in the city it would not look with a favourable eye on the establishment of, one in the valley. If a St. Helens Hospital could be established it would probably meet all requirement. ■

The question of the establishment of a cottage hospital had been mentioned, but the progress of medical science had made it necessary that hospitals should be centralised. s

The Mayor criticised the site on which it was proposed to erect the hospital in Lower Hutt.

The Mayor and Councillor Coles -were appointed the council's representatives on the deputation

An offer from the Wellington Har T bour Board to renew a loan of £3400 at 6 per cent, instead of 5j per cent., was, held over,for further consideration. ■

The Borough Engineer, Mr. A. Cowie, was granted leave to attend the Engineers' Conference in Christchuvch, in February. • '■'■■.■■ ■

In the opinion of Mr. T. F. Martin the erection of garages \did not come under the heading of business premises, and therefore it could not be held that the garages must be built in brick or concrete. .

It waa decided to" obtain an opinion from Mr. Martin as toV-the council's powers regarding -^he design of buildings erected on the stfeet line. The Medical, Officer of Health impressed upon the council and the citizens the need for unremitting attention being paid to the destruction of rats, and also the destruction of rubbish likely to become offensive or to harbour rats. ..Councillor Jones drew attention to rubbish which had not been collected/ in a certain,street. .

- The inspector said that one cart -was not sufficient to serve the growing needs of the borough. The engineer recpmmended that two men should be employed, at any rate, during a part of the week. -

The.engineer and;inspector were asked to report on the question. The jnspec'tor. was instructed to deal with, the question of rats.

The.dog tax was fixed at the same ■amount as previously ; The engineer, Mr. A. Cowie, reported the work of patching the footpaths was m progress. The work of kerbine Jackson street would be continued, and also the laying o f tho concrete slabs. The concreting of a path along the seafront was in progress at a cost of 4s per square yard. Where the larger slabs were being laid the work was costing from 2s 6d to 2s 9d per square yard. The new scanner had been landed and WMr nOW bri fiXed fo the ™<* *X i f-Sturman, the Town Clerk and fir H 1 leave «f absence To" frCtek T apP°inted Acti «S