UPPER HUTT NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12075, 28 February 1925, Page 11

UPPER HUTT NEWS

toWn BOARD MEETING. DISTRICT IMPROVEMENTS. , At this week’s meeting of the Uppei Hutt Town Board there were present- - Commissioners McCurdy (chairman!. Blewman, Burrell, Francis, Greenwood. (tones, and Martin. , ... The Railway Board wrote that the provision of access by way of, Wilson street lo the station platform had been approved, and was being put,in hand, ah® department is to be thanked for acce: - ing to the Town Board s request. HOUSES FOR PATHWAY EMPLOYEES.

The Chief of the Architectural -Branch of the Railway Department inquired ij the Town Board would put an unformed road in order on the western side of railway property located between Maidstone Park and the leased gas works site, in* deportment wishes to erect IS-'bouses. ior its employees, at Upper Hutt at an early date, four of which moy'be, erected on vacant land eastward of- Wallacevillo station and fronting McLean street, end the remainder on land southward of Upper Hutt Station yard. The request was referred to the works committee to report at next meeting. ELECTRIC LIGHTING. " An extra suspension-type 250 c.p. street lamp—the co6t and maintenance to be naid for by themselves—was asked for by business people in the brick area eastward of Upper Hutt Post Office. The leouest was acceded to on the terms mentioned. An insoection of the side streets’ electric . lighting installation is to be r.ade before the close of the. financial year to ascertain if anv further lamps are needed or present lamps located to the best advantage. A verbal offer having been, received for the purchase of the remainder ..of the was works plant and. a number of iron-lamn-p<yts, the town clerk was directed to obtain written offers from others .engaged in the scrap-iron trade. GENERAL. ' The chairman’was authorised to present to the Minister for Internal Affairs the petition for the incorporation of the Town District and a contiguous area of about IGO acres as a "borough.” The. toivn clerk was appointed to represent the Town Board at .a meeting ’of local authorities to consider re heavy • traffic fees, the ehairman ' being unable to attend, as the date fixed was-that of the monthly meeting of the Hospital Board. The clerk was directed to oppose any tampering with the by-law, as the fees scheduled were less than those proposed under new Government regulations. •It was’ decided to obtain from < ! vil engineering firms qualified to submit sewerage Proposals.. definite terms on which full-estimates, details, and piafts could be’supplied prior to a poll being taken,. and the conditions upon ’ which t-hov would be prepared to carry out- the work. .