BROOKLYN STREETS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 687, 11 December 1909, Page 3

BROOKLYN STREETS.

':'. WIDENING NOT TO BE'ENFORCED; ;C; ;' / A SUCCESSFUL; DEPUTATION/:'■',; A dozen ratepayers of ; Brooklyn waited 03 the 'Prime Minister, last;'■ evening, 'to : "protest:, against the action of.the Government in;oppos- ; ing the Wellington City' Streets Empowering Bill; which, has passed ite second reading. Mr, '.<? :R; ; A; WrighV' M..V. (Wellington South); intro- : duced the deputation, which came under ■ the' auspices of the Brooklyn Electors' Association.,:,' The. Mayor, Dr. Newman, said that: a num- .'; ber of streets.in Melrose were not 68 ieet wide, and 'the Bill proposed 'that. 'these private.;"■' streets, with tlio others, should'be-taken 1 over < by .the City Council. The land was hilly,' and the people, who wero mostly of the working class,- could -not spend auy money oh their '.:.'■ streets. It would,bo a great;hardship if these people, who paid rates just as did residents of public sticcte, could not:have improvements ' made which 1 would render the roads, passable lu winter. The City Council had received a' ; deputation from: the residents, but could not give any help. It was not as if the, street!".' had been formed, of this width in' defiance of aw; had that been tho- fact, the case might: have been difforent.- The council, who: had promoted the BUI,- felt that, if the Govern- , raent waived their opposition, the Bill wuuld go through. ■ : : —: ■ - .Councillor Frost agreed that the: stipulation ; °L a \ V 1{ t \ ll. m feet ' wns ''desirablo'.forfuturo streets, but.this.was a.thing of tho past • The UtyCouncil could not.possibly spend money" on the widening of. these streets.- None oF them were less than' 33 feet wide,'and' some '• orthem haoVa width of 50 feet.' ■.■-■. :™" ' f J h I?S- X I- W- M'Cardlo. pointed.out that ° £ {hls ? art of thor.city had W. bably been more rapid .than that of any oSar ■ P 1-1 %i eoa,^ 0 r. bf . tho: cheapness of the land;- ' JiLfT l F\- M wistor said bo bad'to personal., feeling m the-mattor, but, bo had: hTfy •■ as Vy> for - something 'sinrf- • for in the BiTL n ß.,agp. Parliament had affirmed, the doit was a retrospective matter, and the peopkr' W «J e v? 1 *?• y an^.: i «re«' might be cause^for difiioulty, Sir Joseph, suggested, might be got i %1 ' ilJf wore put into the BiU that ■' the streets-be taken oversubject to the consent Thi* o ™^^! l M ng ; obtained. This would, be^a 1 ,chpck: which, wonld,have,to be recognised: by people in Mother parts. Thr fhif w fflt £ hl °Me .suggested, would mean" PnS to = omm P l «^. ; an officer' of .the Public .would make): an i Zfi^ ?n -•■■•■ PiK decided that: the' natural configuration of the was such as notto call for, a width , of. ,68 feet,. nothing would:: , be : dono to.prevent the formation WO rk boinßcarried ■ on. - '.'■■■?■' -.:,- . . <<•'..' ~.. \^r? ■ ■ WripW: : Then - some;: streets .would': be passed, and>some would ■n , 6t»'"' ; ''. vv ' , ~'~:-™'-' . Sir Joseph.-. I think it is unlikely, if yon say the, streets, are- on hilly, land. Evervthki : reasonable. 1 will: h e : done. '. of deputation .remarked that,' m some.places,',,there would be very little' more thanstreet, if;the : ,Govornment^nS l on_a' width: 0r66 feet;at Brooklyn. ;> : ' v^lit^ 'Wo.i.'communicato with, the Hon.' ;i .•to^l^fe^.)^ 'Sir Thcnvho: irtho;'proper man'to : H*? 'Ministry, v (Laughter.) '. ' " - ■ Mr. Wright: He, is a harder man to shift are, Sir-Joseph. (Laughter;) •'■> ,' c'£?'^ y «'° : •* r w;.take > ;;M.P„ Joseph I said ..that:there 1 would ;be no •delayV in .con-v hM& WK Plan? ' tti passed:: in globo. Where-people had' had some'understanding, about 'streets m the past,'.no :diffl. : oulty would be raised. ,:,-:. ','" :■" ."-,„: