REEVE STREET PETITION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1736, 10 July 1917, Page 3

REEVE STREET PETITION.

The petition from the ratepayers and residents of Reeve-Street, asking that the street be formed and metalled, and that an outlet be made through the hill in Brown Street to Union Street, which had in accordance with the Standing Orders, been held over since the last monthly meeting, was brought forward at last night’s Council meeting. The Public Works Committee submitted the following recommendation: That no action be taken re petition to form and metal Reevo Street until the property owners comply with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act; that ice plant or marram grass be planted to prevent sand drift in'Brown Street, and that the property owners on /he south side of Reeve Street he offered the half chain of road fronting their properties at one shilling and four pence per foot frontage, and in the event of all agreeing to purchase, the money so raised be expended on the improvement of the street.” Mr A. Stevenson, a ratepayer in Reeve Street, who was present, questioned whether the planting of the hill as suggested would he effective, as stock was continually being driven over the hill. As to buying the frontages, he did not think the ratepayers would all agree. It had been offered previously, and surae wore agreeable, but others were not. Cr Henderson said something should be done to the street, but the Council should not take any action until the ratepayers had cleared the noxious weeds. Cr Thompson said that if the ratepayers had previously declined to buy the frontages it was no good delaying matters to put the same proposition before them again. It was now only a matter of clearing the noxious weeds before the formation could be commenced. Cr Hurley said he certainly thought something should he done. The street was a disgrace, and it was a very difficult matter indeed to get along the street in the dark. The recommendations were adopted.