MEETING OF BOROUGH COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 4

MEETING OF BOROUGH COUNCIL

The fortnightly meeting o£ the Lower Hutt Borough Council was held last night. Present: Mi. W. T. Strand (Mayor) and Councillors A. M'lSain, W. Cf. Meldvum, E Waklie, V. Campbell, A. Grierson, and A. J. Hobbs. Tho Hospital Board was thanked ior an invitation lor councillors to visit the Hospital and attend a board meeting, but councillors expressed themselves as satisfied with the council's present representatives and were quite prepared to leave matters in their hands. The Department of Lands and Survey forwarded a tracing of a plan of land which will bo vested in the council near the mouth of the Hutt River in connection with the new road now in course of construction. The land has an area of over 7 acres. The council approved the arrangement made, Councillor Hobbs dissenting. The Lower Hutt Free Kindergarten Association was granted leave to take a street collection on 19th October. Councillor Grierson was appointed the council's delegates to elect a local bodies' representative to the Petoue Technical School Board. The Mayor stated that reports from the Borough Engineer and the River Board Engineer on the recent flooding near the Hutt Park would 'be circulated to councillors, and he had every confidence that if the proposals were adopted flooding would soon be a thing of the past. Tho Borough Engineer (Mr. A. G. Bush) reported that the sewerage plant was all working in perfect order, though some of it, both old and new," was running continuously to cope with storm water. The council agreed to accept dedication of streets recently formed by the Government in Eastern Hutt.