TEMPORARY BUILDINGS IN MAIN STREET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1085, 20 August 1912, Page 3

TEMPORARY BUILDINGS IN MAIN STREET.

(To the Editor)

Sir. —In your comments you refer to my action re temporary buildings in the Main Street as a little joke I was trying to ring on colleagues. I am not given to joking, more especially about things that concern the whole borough. I wish in this instance it was a joke. But unfortunately 1 have good reason to believe otherwise. 1 have good leg.il authority i.» say that when the Borongu vwoiuK.il gives permission to anyone to build iu spite ot their by-laws and all the promises iu the world they caunot compel those buildiugs to be removed unless they are unsanitary, when they can do so under the Public Health Act. The proprietors ot the buildiugs it they are houest aud are men oi principle would keep their promise, but unless they choose to dismantle them there is no law to compel them, and I have it on the authority of a gentleman of this town, whose name I will not mention at present, that at least one of the owners of these buildings told him he did not intend to dismantle and that he could not be forced to do so. When 1 was elected to the Council I became a steward of the ratepayers’ interest and while I am there I shall do all I can to the best of my ability to further the interest of all classes of the community without lear or lavour. Thanking you for intruding on your space. —I am, etc., H. W. Richmond.

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