PETONE AFFAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 7

PETONE AFFAIRS

BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETING

The fortnightly meeting of the Petone Borough Council was held last evening. Councillor J. C. Burns (Deputy Mayor) presided.

. The" council agreed to reconsider its decision in regard to ah allowance to a boy who was badly burned by treading on the embers of a beach fire.

The question of the price iat which the council, would sell a block of 1£ acres of land to the Housing Department is to be reconsidered by the finance committee. The Department asked for a reduction of £550 on the amount'originally asked by the council. :

By four votes to three the council decided to allow a Sunday patriotic concert. The objectors were the fieputy Mayor and Councillors Green and Macfarlane. The reserves committee advised that the Rugby Union had been offered the recreation ground for £150 for the season, the amount now being paid. j HOSPITAL POSITION. : The Wellington Hospital Board outlined the position in regard to hospital accommodation. The 120-bed i (hospital at Lower Hutt should have been ready this month, but owing toj war conditions would not be ready till the end of winter next year. It was proposed to erect two temporary 50-bed wards at Kilbirnie and the council was asked not to oppose a loan for this purpose and also to waive the regulations requiring five weeks' notice of the board's intention to raise the loan.' It- was agreed that the) matter was urgent and the council acceded to the requests. A councillor raised the point of the proposed increase in the hospital levy but the Deputy Mayor said the council would not meet trouble half way.