PETROL TANKS BUILT.
• I BUT THEY CANNOT BE USED. COUNCIL REVERSES DECISION ON MAYORS CASTING VOTE. (Bγ Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A peculiar position arose at the meeting of the City Council last night with regard to underground petrol storage tanks which the British Imperial Oil Company are installing on a site in Montreal Street. On December 6 the council granted the application from the company to instal the tasks, but at last night's meeting, when an application was made to store petrol in the tanka, it was refused, on the cast-ing vote of the Mayor. The By-Laws Committee reported that an application had been received from the company for permission to store 24,000 gallons of petrol in their underground tanks in Montreal Street. The committee recommended that the application be granted. After a division had been taken Cr. McKellar said the council was wrong. The Mayor: I have opposed these tanks from the start, and I am very delighted to give my casting vote against them,
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 16
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