WIDTH OF STREETS.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Friday.
A deputation waited on the Minister for Lands last night to protest first against the compulsory setting back of land frontages to streets under a chain wide as far as 33 feet from the centre of the road; secondly, against the provision requiring that streets in suburbs should be formed and metalled 66 feet wide; and thirdly, to point out that the Municipal Corporations Act allowed the local authorities in boroughs to form streets less than a chain wide, whereas in suburban districts no such provision was allowed. It was explained that the objectionable clauses were sections 20 and 21 of the Public Works Aot, and that the matter affected the whole colony. Members of the deputation stated that the effect had been to stop the Bubdivision of land, and make some properties unsaleable, while the cost of forming streets of a width of 66 feet would be prohibitive. Eighteen feet or 20 feet formation would bo sufficient. The Minister promised to make representations to his colleagues on the subject.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 167, 27 July 1901, Page 2
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