LYALL BAY LAND.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 19 May 1910, Page 6

LYALL BAY LAND.

OFFER TO CITY COUNCIL.

NEGOTIATIONS TO GO ON.

A special meeting of tho City Counoil was held yesterday to consider tlio question of purchasing 2 i l acres of land at Lyall JBay from the trustees of the Crawford estate. As has been previously stated in The Dominion, a conditional offer of the land at £ISO an acre wa-s first niado by the trustees, and. tlio council, after considering the matter, agreed to offer £3500 for an unconditional purchase.. This offer was refused by the trustees, who, it is stated, havo received another offer from a syndicate, who, it is said, are willing to pay considerably nioro than £180 an aero for the land. For various reasons, however, the trustees arc understood to profer selling to tho council if satisfactory terms cart bo arranged. Tho council decided yesterday to go on with negotiations, and a sub-com-mittee was appointed to confer with the trustees, and report later to-tlio council. It is . understood that the quostion of access to the land for thu trustees is the main obstacle to an agreement. When tho question of purchase, was previously before the council, the trustees expressed tho conditions they wished carried out as follows : —

"Wo propose that out of tho area there shall bo deducted the area required for tho continuation of a chainwide road on the beach, also sufficient area for two reads to intersect the land between such road and tho estate's property, the position of such two roads to bo hereaftiir determined; the trustees not to be responsible for tho formation of such intersecting roads or beach road. They, of course, will make tho road up to the corporation laud when their land is subdivided. The price of the laud is £180 per acre, after making all tho deductions.

"We are quite willing to make the acres by areas, say 20 feet wide, and the determination of what kind of traffic should bo permitted can be left to the council."

A motion put before the council at that meeting by Councillor J for rah, to purchase the land' at the trustees' price, "subject to the condition that the formation of the streets desired by the vendors must bo carried out at the vendors' expense," was lost by 7 votes to 5, iukl the council decided to make the unconditional offer which has boon refused by tho trustees.