LOWER HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 144, 16 December 1930, Page 9

LOWER HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL

The .-fortnightly meeting of the: Lower Hutt Borough Council was held yesterday!, Present: Sir Alexander Roberts (Mayor), Councillors A. M'Bain, W. G. Meldrum, D. S. Patrick, J. R. Boyd, A. E. Carver, F: Campbell, J. Mitchell, and A. Grierson. # The Hutt Free Kindergarten Association thanked the a :l *■<,■ its donation of £20. The offer of tlie A.M.P. Society to reoeive repayments of loans and interest in Wellington instead of. Sydney, was accepted by the council. • The Mayor remarked that the benefit was mutual and the council would save considerably on its exchange.. Approval was.given to local theatres to show pictures on Christmas night. Coun, ,pol ■ A" Ba*n Ivas appointed censor. The council resolved to recommend to the unemployment Board the scheme submitted by Mr. J. ,T. Bridger, Mayor of JMtham, lor the relief of unemployment. An application for permission to erect a cycle stand on the kerb in High street was refused. 'Che council decided to apply for the exemption of portions of the west sides of lama and Pretoria' streets from tlie widen -mg Provisions of the Public Works Act J.he fown Clerk reported that Miss M. Huskisson. had been appointed senior typist? in-the council office; and that a section of'land'owned by the council had been Jet for a miniature golf course at £2 A special grant of £20, in addition to that ou the estimates, was made to the J.'ire -brigade. The council decided that the hospital accounts incurred by two members of the brigade should bej>aid by the council