QUEEN-STREET "NARROWS."

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 274, 18 November 1910, Page 2

QUEEN-STREET "NARROWS."

REPORTED ENCRQAC_j__£Ejrr.

Asr disqoysry,

When an application came before the Auckland City Council last night frofn the architect of Messrs Smeeton and Co-s new premises, in JJower Queen-street, for permission to erect "bdlcpnettes" on the building, a report was read :from the city (engineer objecting to the granting of tjiia right, as the buildings on that part of Queen-street would already be outside the street alignment.

Mr. C- J- Parr,-who has been away from Auckland, expressed some -surprise at this statement, and asked for information.

Ifce Mayor ,(Mr. JU J. Sagnal!) sfli_. that the G-vei-iment surveyor (Mr. I_angmuir), who made the standard .survey, had reported that all the buildings in the lower end of Queen-street, from the Waitemata Hotel corner to above Swan-son-street, were encroaching on the street. At the Waitemata corner the encroachment was some ten feet, and ran out to nothing about the Bank bf New Zealand.

Mr. Parr asked what was going to be done in the matter?

The Mayor said that was their difficulty. They had sent' the matter on to the city solicitor, and were hoping he would give them a lead in the matter. The Works Committee was considering tbe question, which was a most difficult cie, but at present he could .not say what was the best course to pursue.

In the meantime it was decided to decline the architect's request for permission to erect the "balconett-S."