CITY CONTROL.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18403, 9 June 1925, Page 5

CITY CONTROL.

BRYNDWR DISSATISFIED. According to a deputation representing residents, which waited on- the Waimairi County Council yesterday, the Bryndwr district has received no benefits since its inclusion in tho city area. One, member Of the deputation said, "The Waimairi Council can give us all we want, and attend to us a dam sight better than the City Council." Some time ago residents or Uryndwr petitioned tho Government to appoint a commission to go into the question of the district going back" into the Waimairi County. A commission has been appointed, and the object of the deputation yesterday was to ask the Council to help the residents of Bryndwr to fi"ht the case. The deputation consisted of Messrs F. AV. Hunt, A. Boyd, E. Forbes and Walter Wray. ~..'„ ■, ~ i Mr Hunt said, that the City Council had decided to fight the case. They appeared to be able to get nothing at all from tbe city that they could not get from Wnimairi, The district had been dreadfully neglected. Tho roads were all in .pot-holes, and the County Council's channelling scheme had not oeon carried out. Bryndwr had been forced into the city, by the people of Papanui. Bryndwr had lio community of interest at all with. Papanui. Since going into tho city, his rates had gone up from JE6 to £lB. Cr. W. P. Spencer: And nothing done? Mr Hunt: s .No, nothing. haß been done. They opened 1 a channel on one side of Idris road, but it was the wrong side. _ The chairman (Cr. J. Seymour): I don t see that we can help you much. You are quite within your rights in engaging the Council's solicitor if you like-. < < Mr Hunt: We thought perhaps the Council would assist us in giving evidence. If the City Council is going to fight the .matter, so should Waimairi if you want us back. The chairman: I suggest that you get ratepayers concerned to give evidence. The solicitor will put them on the right lines. Air Hunt said that the petition was signed by about 80 per cent; of the ratepayers ■tif Bryndwr. , Mr Wray said thai it was not with any of the votes of Bryndwr that they went out of Waimairi. They had always got on well with the Waimairi Council. • Roads in the district, such as Wairarsapa and Idris roads, were full of pot-holes. He had lived there, for forty years, and he had never seen them in such V state. When the petition was started, the City Council sent a few loads of shingle and filled in the pot-holes. In reply to a question, the chairman said that, while the Council would welcome Bryndwr back, it'was the general rule not to take any~ active part in - fighting a case when one part of another district wanted to join the county. The Council would be pleased to give tho residents all the information posaib'e. After the deputation had withdrawn, it was decided to supply the residents with any information they desired regarding fates and so forth.