THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE BUILDING REGULATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 255, 3 November 1897, Page 2

THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE BUILDING REGULATIONS.

IN RE ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL.

(To the Editor.)

Sir —I cannot help feeling that a very great hardship is being inflicted on the people of St. Paul's parish and a great iniury done to the residents of Abercrombieatreet and its neighbourhood by the refusal of the Council to give their consent to the removal of the school now in Eden Crescent to theAbercrombiest. site. St.Pauls people otherwise will have to disposed a building for comparatively next to nothing which only twelve years ago was erected at a cost of over £1,500, and is to-day as sound and staunch as a building can be ; besides the inhabitants in Abercrombie-street, etc., will for years lack a centre for useful work and improvement. ~ Q . B „ Dire necessity removed old bt. ram s, but its people pluckily endured ten years degradation from its former pro-cathedral position, and at the end of that period erected the new church, which is certainly no disgrace to Auckland, and by its erection has achieved a needed city unprovement (the purpose for which the old church was demolished) that I for my part can clearly see. In return for this (whereas private individuals in the not remote vicinity have received almost unrestricted concessions) this public body, after having already wrought improvements and desirous to do more, are met with a cold refusal, viz., the by-law must now be enforced, and in a way to cause much inconvenience to the neighbourhood and wasteful loss to a body who have benefited the city'as well as preventing the prospective gain of probably hundreds. If, as I hear, the Council are again to be approached on this subject by way of an influential petition, may I respectfully ask them to hold that their by-laws are not those of Medes and Pensians, especially taking into consideration that this application was made some months since, and will you, sir, by inserting this assist "the cause that lacks assistance."—l am, etc.,

John Wilkins.

Lower Symonds-street.