HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4428, 7 August 1901, Page 6

HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The Hutt Borough Council met on Monday evening. Present—His Worship the Mayor (Mr Orton Stevens), Counr cillore Ward, Waugh, E. Stevens, Cudhy, Hollard, Hayes and Moorhouse. Correspondence wa received from Mr Smithies, Petone Borough Engineer, in. timating that as the data taken by him with a view of furnishing a report to the Hutt Council was insufficient to enable him to make a report of a nature to be of use to the Council, and not having the necessary time at his disposal to obtain the requisite additional data, he was not in a poition to proceed with the work. The Chief Health Officer wrote, impressing upon the various local authorities the advisability of using the sealed pan system where water carried sewerage was not available, and suggesting that the Council should put the system in force in the borough.

A motion bv Councillor Moorhduse, that an increase in wages be made to casual employees of the Council working on the bridge, was agreed to. With regard to the proposed recreation ground, Councillor Moorhouse stated that Mr Wilkins had made an offer of eight or nine acres of land, situated in Bloomfield road. Councillor Moorhouse considered the site an excellent one, and suggested that the whole of the members should inspect the ground. It was decided that the Council meet at the Chambers on Saturady at 3 p.m., and inspect Mr Wilkins’s ground and another site the Council has in view.

The, financial statement showed that receipts for the month were £321 11s 7d, and expenditure, including the evening’s payments (£234 ss. 2d), amounted to £859 9s. Drs Mason and Purdy the meeting, and reported on the sanitary condition of the borough. Dr Mason stated that but for press of work _he would have visited the borough earlier. He suggested, however, that the Council should adopt some other scheme for collecting and disposing of nightsoil, and urged upon the Council the necessity for discontinuing the present system used by the Hutt people. He advised the adoption of a scheme similar to that obtaining in Petone. It was also, he said, most important that a better water supply should be provided. He deplored to present system obtaining in the Hutt, whereby the people secured their water by means of artesian wells, contending that a great waste of water thereby resulted, and there was also the danger of water running short. Another matter in which he considered the Council should at once take action was the absolnte necessity for giving notice to persons owning factories where food and foodstuffs were made to have the adjacent premises used for poultry, etc., removed.