JACKSON STREET

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 68, 20 March 1936, Page 14

JACKSON STREET

THE WIDENING SCHEME

THREE PROPERTIES TO CO

BACK

The Petone Borough Council has been negotiating for some time with the owners of all the properties in Jackson Street that have not yet been set back, and it is likely that the whole scheme will be completed within a year. Workmen are at present engaged in the demolition of Mr. W. L Jenness's building in the block between Fitzherbert and Sydney Streets, preparatory to the erection of a building on the new alignment of the street Two other buildings in the same block-the Sell-Help grocery shop and Wong Too's fruit shop-are also to be set back. Work on the demolition of the Selp-Help building will commence almost immediately, and the occupiers will move to a position across the street in the same block. As the fruit shop is a wooden building it can be shifted back bodily. When this is done every building in this block Will have been set back. An empty shop belonging to Mrs. A. Henry is also to be set back. This building is one of three on the east side of the post office that the Petone Borough Council at its meeting on Monday night decided must be set back. The back portion of the building" is wooden, and can be set backbodily, but the brick front portion will have to be remodelled. The council has been unable to come to a satisfactory agreement with the owners of two other buildings in Jackson Street, and has signified its intention of taking them under the Public Works Act. . The finishing touches are being put on the new post office in Jackson Street, and it is expected that it will be open to the public for business in a week or two. . . . Other building work is being carried out in Petone, and the town is presenting a changed appearance.