ANCIENT VINTAGE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 265, 31 January 1941, Page 5

ANCIENT VINTAGE

OHOPE FRONTAGE ROAD

LONG STANDING ARGUMENT

'"There are some people whoi think that wo exist for the settling of the road question only. Incised it. would appear so toov by the way we bring it up and discuss it every meeting. I would like to see the matter settled once and for all and if what Mr Canning has said is correct I consider its a matter of demanding from the County Council our legal rights about the frontage road and there'fc an end 1 to it."

In this vein Mr W. Sullivan -it the meeting of the Oliope Progress and Ratepayers' League last Tuesday weighed up the long standing question, of the frontage road (sections 1 to 58). The clause concerned; was tabled by the chairman, Mr A. J. Canning who stated that it was printed on all titles to section-hold-ers and agreed toi by them beforei purchase could be made. It reads:

'The said Leonard Buddie and Thomas Wilson James (original owners) do and each of them hereby transfer and grant unto the purchaser or purchasers of each and; every lot on the said plan and the owner or owners for the time being o? the said lots and their respect

tive servants, agents, workmen, customers, friends and guests with or without horses, vehicles and motor cars, the right at all times to go pass and repass over portions of the said lots one chain wide above high water mark as shown on the said deposited plan and! hereon coloured red.'

As was well known, said Mr Canning in answer to the League's decision to make some effort to have the road dedicated by virtue of n petition to the County Council, a counter petition based entirely on false premises had been presented and had been upheld, in the name of the Ratepayers' Association. He thought' however, like Mr Sullivan that it was time the county took the whole matter in hand and did the fair thing in accordance with the agreement on the title. j Mr Cutler said that the countei petition was based on definite missstatements, many of the signatories being told that it was the intention to take half their existing land for the purpose of constructing the road. There had never been any such intention. It was finally decided to send a deputation to wait on the County Council at its next meeting, drawing attention to the existing clause, and requesting that the road be thrown open to the public with a view to official dedication.