HATAITAI LANDS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 3

HATAITAI LANDS

A MATTER. OF ACCESS. ' ■An interesting position has arisen in connection with an application to the City Council by the Hataitai .Liind Company to cut up into 'building' allotments a furthor hillside block of the Jlntnital Estate fronting Rakau Road. At present this road winds considerably, and filially comes down th 9 gully, to. join Road near the Kilbirnie end of the tramway tunnel. This long load ttioies a considerable detoiir for future residents of tlid land proposed to be cut up, and beyond that again, and after going thoroughly into the matter the council decided to withhold permission to tho proposed 'subdivision until such tmie as the oompany sees fit to provide" moro direot access to Waitoa Road (the thoroughfare between tho tunnel month and Moxham Avenue that is traversed by the cans). It was suggosted to the company that this could be done. by providing a zigzag road or track through tho (at present) only vaoant lot between Waitoa Road and /Rakau Road, but the company's rejoinder to that proposal was that'the section had beep sold, and it was. not prepared to buy it back for the purpose of dedicating tho snrne as a public'road. Tho City Council is firm in its opinion that tho company'should provide better and quicker access to' tho lands proposed to be cut up—for; the benefit of tho district for all time—and has withheld consent to the proposed subdivision until its wishes in that direction are complied with.