A MISUNDERSTANDING
Elm and Oak Roads Are Not Considered Slum Areas HOUSING-SURVEY PR0P0SALS A misapprehension appears to have been created as the result of the report before the last meeting of the Hastings Borough Council concerning the making of a housing survey of the borough, the suggestion being that Elm and Oak roads are being considered as slum areas. They were nothing of the kind he said ; every section in those streets was in strict accordance with the regulations and by-laws. The roadwa'ys themselves, however, were not of the width required5,under town-planning ideas, and it was because of this fact that they could nofc be considered with the remainder of the borough as conforming with the requirements of the Housing Survey Act. "It is the intention of the council," he said, "to undertake a survey of these roads with a view to bringiug them into line with the remainder of th© streets and roads in the borough. As a matter of fact, the majority of the residences in these two streets are of very recent construction, and tho streets conform with the requirements in every way with the one exception of the actual width of the roadway itself."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 25, 13 February 1937, Page 4
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