STREET IMPROVEMENT.
MAXXERS STREET TRI ANGLE to
1 The Cit,- Council has decided on resuming possession of the eastern half of the trnng'ilir olock of Lind which lies hetneen Ma.in n rs Street and Tarainki Place, and knorn to old residents |of Wellington as tlie Market Pes«ne. i A fov. months ago the Major (Mr. .5. P. I.uke) coqoeived the ideatint it ici:id be a '.ery good plan + o that part o f Manners Street bcl'tecn t'i.e Cuba m.d T, ranoki Streets intersections whilst tho block was 'ict cleared of b'uldr'gs of aiv p'otontion. His nian was to take a otnp of land iboi't 10ft. ir. width, and to ■nuien the street by Oiat much, and nip off the Police Station corr-er (conceded to 'ie an altogether Later on Councillor Barber ♦pblc-d a notice o r notion that the council resume possession of the -\hole of *he black save that occupied In Mr. Samuel G.lmer (Rojal Oak Hotel), :<nd the space so ncquTod for tramnav ii'ie purposes and .is an open spire Thai motion v.as ruled out of ordpr as the matter of dealing with the b'oek was then be ng coiisid"r?d Ly committee.
It is r.on uiiderstcod that the Leaseholds Committee favours the resuniition of the block from the Police Station to tho old garaeo (which is under leaso to Mr. S G'Her. proprietor of *ho Royal Oak Hotel). J Mr. James Ames has alr<"id) como to an acreement with the piop'netors of Hall's Turkish Baths; Mr. John Flock lor has no lease, and the ets:r>»*Cs of tho Department th : s 'ear fill pro/ide a oiim for tho erection of a new station at the corner o' Victoria and Lower Taranaki Streets, but tiiitii that is provided <ho Department n ill continue to occupy tho present premises. Mr. G'lmer, it is understooel, agreeb to cive a triangular strip off the Manners Street side ef the garage biock for »treet-n idnning purposes, and negotiations are ioc proceeding with Mr. A. Ross, vho has an engineer's ihop between vho Turkish Baths and tho parage. The intention of the wire! is thai t'-o wholo of tho present building? shall bo swept a»a> altosrether. and the space devoted to street widening," vith perhaps a plantat'oirjiud conveniences. >\\ tnr is carried _in*o effect it prncticilly ci-es expression to Councillor Barber's idea as set out in his notice of motion of s-omo v-cekfi ago.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2193, 4 July 1914, Page 9
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398STREET IMPROVEMENT. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2193, 4 July 1914, Page 9
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