PARAPET DANGERS
ADDITIONAL POWERS NEEDED IN WELLINGTON.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Pay.
There were thousands of tons of masonry in useless parapets and ornamentations on city buildings which were a menace not only to workers in these buildings but to the public, said Cr. C. M. Bowden, in asking at last night’s Wellington City Council meeting if the by-laws could be altered to require the removal of such masonry, and prevent further useless ornamentations.
The Mayor, Mr Hislop, said that if a building was dangerous at the actual time of such an occurrence as an earthquake the council could require the position to be remedied. There had to be actual proof of danger. Noticing could be done, except to ask owners to act, in cases where it could only be said that a danger would be possible under certain circumstances. It must be remembered that places of the type referred to had been built according to then existing by-laws. The whole matter could be further gone into when a full survey of the situation had been made.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 2
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