LAKESIDE BUILDING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 11

LAKESIDE BUILDING.

POSITION AT TAKAPUNA. GOVEENMENT'S LIABILITY. Further discussion tookr place at a meeting of the Takapuna Borough Council last evening, concerning the subdivision of lakeside properties and the building of dwellings on the same. An important change in the attitude of the Government was shown by a letter received from the Minister of Health (Sir Hani Pomare), advising that the matter of the legal position regarding costs and compensation in the event of ah.action being, brought against the "councflT" in ' connection "with fusal ta grant subdivision and building applications in the lake basin, had been fuly considered by Cabinet. It has been finally decided that the Government would, not insist on the legal position, but would undertake the defence of any action brought against the council for refusing consent of subdivision. Previously the Health Department had declared that the responsibility -was on the shoulders of the council. In answer to a question put bY" Mr. G. H- Matthews, the Mayor (Mr. "j. W. Hayden) stated that under the existing conditions there was no way in which owners of lakeside sections could be compensated. Mr. T. B. Arthur explained that only a comparatively few would be affected by the by-law. Many of the sections sloped" partially away from the lake, and building on these would not be interrupted.