SPRING SHOW

Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 15, 10 September 1941, Page 5

SPRING SHOW

Th| Hutt "Vaftey*' Horticultural ifocUfryy is to be held, on Wednesday 'and Thursday, 17th ; • >Bd 18th September.

J Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Sir Cyril Newall, and Lady NewaKt #re to open the show, at 3 p.m. This will be Thiir EXcellehcieS' first official visit to Lower' Hutt ' City. , ( v A guard of honout, forced by representatives from (!he various ; •groups' of Boy Scouts and Giri Guides'hiroughout the Valley has i been arrahged. The society's show . is recognised as the premier narcissi show in New Zealand, and ,the Coi)S6i<tfde[' is determined /to make event worthy of the

LOWER HUTT BILL PASfi&D .. ;; <} —'■ 1 ♦ . - 1 ' The Lower liutt City Empowering Ratfes I Consolidation djfji, .wjilqhf resulted/from the rfecent. elusion ofjjtffid from the Hirtt County of LoWgf was passed by the House o» Zfth August.' 1 Moving the second reading, the ActingfErime Minister (Hon. Sff. Nash), as member for Hutt, said the bill was necessary to permit the Lower Hutt City Council to operate its finances in respect of the 1769 acres of land added to its admlnji)> tratlon. The bill had been thoroughly examined by the local bills committee and was found satisfactory* to all Concerned. I Thfe bill was read a second time bnd i put ? through the committee stage without amendment. OjMhe third reading Mr. Combs (Wellington Suburbs) raised the queWJotf of' the Shandon Golf Club'q lease of Gear Island. He said that

the club bad been paying £59 a year in rates to the former Hutt Borough Council, but would now have to find £270, which meant that the dub would have to increase its fees to members.

Mr. Na|h said the position was aft Mr. had stated. The clilb had a lease which would' run to

1945, and in the ordinary, way. it would have to Arid the additional rates, r The Mayor oi Lower' Hutt had ■ realised the club's diifaeulty, and had intimated that If the club would surrender the remaining part of jia lease of . the island the city coupcil would rent the area to it at the figure the club \rii at present paying. It was a tremendously fair offer; /.

The bill was read a third time and passed. - '

.The arrangement Idalide, ,by the Mayor on behalf of HUtt City Council was that a nesj33|&tie should, be entered into betifefti the Hutt City Councty and Petone - Borough Council and thfe golf club, the rental to be the ittiqunt at.present payable to thejfllve* »poard, plils the Amount of ratek previously paid to the Hutt Couiity, Council, and the lease to expire on the same dlte as the present le&ie. Thiswill leave the club in exactly the same position as it is at preseirt both as t$ tenure and the annual cost. The River Board has already entered into an arrangement .to lease; the ttland to theUiio eouncllft from the, date on whiitfr tiufc-preafht leaf e«x- ■ pirfL . i