MUNICIPAL ELECTORS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2802, 21 June 1916, Page 6

MUNICIPAL ELECTORS

. . ■——9 . HATAITAI ASSOCIATION.. A well-attended meeting of the committee of the Hataitai Municipal Electors' Association was held last evening, Mr. Leigh Hunt being in the chair, when many matters affecting the welfare of the district were brought forward. A sub-coinriiittee was appointed to wait upon the Mayor in reference to—(1) The by-laws dealing with air space and street frontages; (2) the encroachment by privates individuals upon street reserves, etc. , • Messrs. Leigh Hunt, Batt, Bayfield, and Robinson were appointed a deputation to wait upon the postal authorities to urge the necessity of at once proceeding with the erection of the post office, the site for which the Department has already acquired, and the necessary funds have been provided for in the mates.The Hataitai delegate to the Greater Wellington. Town Planning Association was requested to bring forward at tho next meeting of that body the question of alteration to the Courtenay Place tram terminus. Many members spoke in regard to tho great risks' pedestrians, chiefly women and children, run daily in boarding and leaving cars at this busy junction. It was reported that certain "trees planted in the post office reserve had been wilfully damaged, presumably by the "small boy," and the matter is to bo placed in tho hands of the police.