OPENING A NEW STREET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2140, 15 June 1920, Page 3

OPENING A NEW STREET.

DEPENDS UPON WIDTH'OF A CULVERT.

At a recent meeting of the Borough Council Mr E. S. Easton applied for permission to construct an eighteen-feet culvert over the Awahou Creek, in Johnstpn Street, the object being to open up a street to connect Johnston ■ and Whyte Streets. The Council then decided to grant the permission asked for, provided the .culvert was constructed 24 feet wide.

At last night’s meeting a notice of motion by Cr. Pearson, seconded by Cr. Hunt, that the previous motion he rescinded, and that Mr Easton be advised that the Council is prepared to accept a culvert 18ft, wide, and the Council will construct the additional six feel, was considered.

Cr. Pearson said that Mr Easton was very definite on (he point, and if (lie Council adhered lo its previous resolution he would not open the proposed new street. If the street was opened he understood it was the intention of the owner to build on the sections, apd this would bo a. good thing for. the town, if the

Council could got the aew street by erecting six feet of culvert he thought it should bo done. Cr. limit said that a street as proposed would he a great convenience to the public generally. Cr. Coley; Mr Easton has got to open the street! Cr. Pearson: Why?

Cr. Coley said 11ml: he couldn’t disclose business (dial did not: concern the Council, but the fact remained that the street had to be opened. He did not think that in stipulating a. 24ft. culvert the Council was asking for too much. In opening ihe street Mr Hasten was not doing so in order to benefit the town, but was doing it so as to sell his land. To cope with the increasing traitic wide streets were advocated, and as soon as the culvert under discussion was constructed there would be an agitation to widen same, and this would then have to be done at the expense of the whole borough. The Mayor said he could not support the motion. In stipulating for a2lft . culvert-he considered the Council was very reasonable. The culvert erected by the Council lower down in the same street'was 2-Ht. wide, and there was no doubt that if the Council allowed an .ISi'l. culvert to be constTueled it would later on have to do the balance. Another tiring, the dignity of the Council niusl be upheld, and they could mil allow one man to dictate to (hem as to the width of a culvert. Mr Fmton no doubt sometimes said things hurriedly and without much thought, but he was 100 much of a business man to Id six feel of culvert stop him from opening 1 lie •street. The motion on being pul was lost, only the mover and seconder supporting it.