NARROW STREETS.
Press Association. DUNEDIN, Saturday. Mr. Lo Crew, Mayor of Mornington, and Mr. J. E. Arnold, M.H.K., left to-day for Wellington, where they are to interview the Minister for Public. Works in reference to a provision in one of the Public Works Act, which they consider will injuriously affect the borough if enforced. It apears that where a street is under a certain width the owner of the property fronting that street may call on the Council to pass a rseolution affirming that the street will never'
be widened. In one particular case (Hawthorne Avenue) the Morniiv-rtyn Council were so requested,.but declined to pass the'resolution, whereupon the owner dedicated a strip of his frontage to the boroughs .and sent,in a bill for £ooo compensation. This power of dedication is in accordance with the law where the Council decline to guarantee: that they will not ultimately widen a narrow street, and -it is on this point that the Mornington Council want relief. The bprough containsnarrow streets and the Council canot- afford, to widen them now, but do not wish to bind themselves never to do. so,-,;'and many cases oF dedication with consequent claims for ■compensation would ruin the finances of the borough,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2072, 6 May 1907, Page 2
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202NARROW STREETS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2072, 6 May 1907, Page 2
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