AN APARTMENT HOUSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 142, 15 June 1920, Page 4

AN APARTMENT HOUSE.

IPU.2ZLE FOR MT. EDEN COUXCH* " A very unsatisfactory position hi) I arisen in Mt. Eden in respect to a house ■which is teing turned into flats to E accommodate live families. The ciramfc I stances were revealed to the lit. Eden Borough Council last evening? whjn the matter was considered at length. The . circumstances are that a permit wu granted for alterations to a house, in / Mt. Eden Road, after plans showing the I external alterations, but not the pro- M posed internal alterations, had I>een sub- 1 mitted and approved. One sanitary eys? i tern, connected with a septic tank, was j provided for. The trouble which thi council are now faced with haa resulted from the fact that the house, as mentioned, is now being made suitable to accommodate five families. After lengthy consideration the in»t« ter was left in the hands of the Mayor, Mr. C. Hudson, with power to refer it to the Public Health Department, 51 necessary. Further, the question of tin borough by-laws was referred to thl Finance Committee, and the motioi recommended that the 'building byJ&wi should be considered, with particulU! reference to apartment houses. ' .