BUILDING AREAS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 273, 17 November 1910, Page 4

BUILDING AREAS.

FIXING A MTNTMTJK. BILL PASSES SECOND READING* (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) We&esfky; In moving the second reading of the , Public Health Ac* Amendment BiU in the House of Representatives to-night the Hon. Mr. Buddo" said-/that-iiri :; the past;- there had. been very, .considerable trouble in the cose of ; 'locit iboiieiiiesirous of preventing a eyetemoj f gtamming. Road boards did /not: pow&i the power of borough councils to limit building areas, and speculator?.and land syndicates were able to flout by-laws and cut land up for sale as residential sites in much smaller areas than-the local authorities desired. If the existing law. was pot amended to give local authorities restrictive powers in thia .respect- there .'_. would be very serious "trouble miSFleast one large town in iius cpimtry/lii tiie city in question a big 1 xcnitrowTsy'had been raging, and the difficulty had" not been successfully settled' by. the Supreme Court \rhen -a test" case ..was,recinily brought forward. Personally,;: heywas inclined to think that, a quarter of ah acre was small enough' for..»' building allotment; but, after conlHerttion. .it had been decided to ask Paxliameet to fix the minimum area at a fifth of aa acre. The Minister added that he intended dropping clause 4 of, the bill,- containing provisions in regard to vaccinartaon. It appeared to..him that the time . was not opportune for dealing with, so important a subject, and he. would ac* ' cordingly postpone it till next session.-: ! Mr. F. W. Lang, in discussing tie proviskme of _the bill, said it might .so happen that "the conditions -of • a 6ft road frontage, ac laid down in- the measure, -would' run a man inti> an expenditure of thousands of pounds to no p«poee. For instance,-a man might ha« ample ground, co far as area was concerned, but have less than the prescribed frontage. This was an anomaly which M hoped to see rectified. The Hon. Mr. Buddo said he desire to place any person ii a difficult position, and so long is the areawae.»» stipulated *he proyiaon as to. tnmw would be reasonable. /The main;W ■was to get this bill through wjbwt delay. Every montti counted, M tain centres the regulatioM ■-, bodies with respect to.the su?e. of.bialiing aUotments was being flouted. — , TJ» bill passed itojsecond reading w* , out further ■