NO LOADING STATION
COUNCIL ABANDONS DOCK SITE PROPOSAL FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY In visw Of the heavy financial responsibility connected with acquiring the northern portion of the old dock site for a loading station, and failure in inducing the other authorities concerned to co-operate, the City Council, on the recommendation of the Town Planning Committee, agreed last evening not to take action. A communication from the Auckland Harbour Board to the council last evening said the board in committee had been prepared to recommend the sale of the portion of the site desired by the council as an omnibus terminal for £ 67,500 —a sum 25 per cent, under valuation. A report from the city solicitor, Mr. J. Stanton, said the council’s proposals of shelters on the site would be feasible only if a large proportion of passengers would board the vehicles at the loading station. Consideration of the council’s traffic duties showed there was no obligation on the council to provide the facility of a loading station, and he did not think the council could, at the present time, make a by-law compelling all omnibuses to start from the station. The council’s right to make charges or to obtain other compensation for such traffic facilities was not clear at the present time.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1027, 18 July 1930, Page 16
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210NO LOADING STATION Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1027, 18 July 1930, Page 16
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