CUTTING OF HOBSON STREET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 264, 13 November 1885, Page 2

CUTTING OF HOBSON STREET.

Proposed Amounts of CompeMatiea,

At the meeting: of the City Council Ust night, the Special Committee « Warn street reported that they had considered the question of compensation for & alteration of levels tol in 16, and recoiamended as follows:— ■ ■■ ■.■ . ;

Hobson-street (west eide).^—Gle«6on, nil; Hill and Hall, nil; Mitctaleon,'{s Cromwell, £25; Hoffey, £35; DmuM. ham and King, £600; Dignaii, 'jffii Catholic property, £200; Bawkeewood, £500; Goldwater, £50; Sibbin, - £10; Aitken, £10 ; Brigham, —; Leo, — ■ Northern Boot factory, —-j'lohL £1,680. -■ ' '~', " Dukhamstbeet.—Whole lot, «mth ride, £500. WyNDHAM-STEEET,-Stoke«,£l6o;Pabliii Trustee, ; Marshall, £50. C

SWANSON-STREET.— £1,000. Hobson-street (east side). - Ajapdpo,; ; Dalton, £5; Christopher, £lb; Madden, £50; Dr. Lee, £100; fond, £40, Worrell, £68; Beehan, £260; Mun>,fttj Marehall,£2oo; Romas Catholic Presbytery, £300; RobiDSon, £150; Craig, fWi Carey, £50; Nathan, £150; Martin, £160; Heywood, £100j PilWngton.flflOjKMeiiig, £100; Combes, £300; McGregor,—: Total, £5,683.

The Mayor said that those sums totm) allowed for compensation for cuttinedown, but in consideration of the permission oi property-holders to allew the street tola cut down. In reply to Cr. Devore, the Mayor aH these amounts had not been named by tts property-owners, but were merely ngg* tod by tho Committee. : \ Cr. Garratt suggested that the wWe matter should be left in abeyance until tit replies were received, ; _ ' Cr. Goldio read clauses from the Act will tho object of showing that the Council hid no power to pay any compensation. ' Mr Holdship moved as an amendment M the report, "Thatjyour committal hevfeg considered the question of compensate, for the payment of damages that m»y w sustained in altering the levels in Holnmstreet to a grade not lees' than 1 in 18aw the side streets abutting thereon toar grades recommended by the Engineer, recommend as follows—viz., that amm w exceeding, say, £6000 he paid to to W perty-owners or others, who must indemnuy the CouncU against loss by anjMCUM which might be taken by any, prow owner or ownors for such alterafcion.of IwwAnd that two assessors (with poffortocioW. an umpire) be appointed to,ssseM the e« ■ able proportion each property-owner WM be entitled to receive according to a raw standard first to be agreed on^ W assessor to be appointed by the.CoW and the other by the propeto-owg Should the property-owners fail orjegW to make the appointment within ♦»«»• fixed by the Council, the *»«»«# pointed by the Council shall be bJIW*; make the award or assessment MWJ The assessment, when made and appro™ by the Council.To be submitted totaeFy perty-owners for their acoeptanoeorw)*' 'Tlengthy discussion took pto «* •. amendment, which was eventually «0 tived. The report was adopted.