CONDEMNED AT LAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 11

CONDEMNED AT LAST.

AN OLD HOME PASSES.

TAURANGA WATERFRONT EPISODE.

m ft^P* ia * ver y h «mble dwelling on the Tauranga ; waterfront with which is associated a- touch of pathetic humour. . £Jow, ramshackle building, its floor . b«J«th the level of the roadway, catches '~•;■; r*M?». of all who climb to the historic , beneath the eminence of which it. his been tucked away for years. The ~5 /hkvpidated hut, with its little patch of ...':!•**[■». houses an old pensioner, who r*J*? n a source of considerable worry .i m tne.horough fathers. The pensioner's • i *'*' ie purchased the section ; from an old beachcomber over forty years <*f°- Now it stands in the way of a ; oeautjfyftg scheme for the waterfront, and is also within a road alignment. The | council art desirous of .removing both the i VWk *"* its oecnpant, and have even m** 4 hm another cottage, but the wise old man stolidly refuses to shift, and x-cataiiy talks about a sum of <£2000 in V ** y of compensation before he may ; f? Pe."naded. Among local residents 1 n? a f ? eKn & of sympathy with the ma chap, an d attachment for his m lowly shack, and, even though it is an - !^? e ' there ha s been a decided m mwlnngness to proceed with an 1 : There comea along, however, a ii 6^!?. 8 Health Department, which emphatically*condemns the corrugated llis?* ? £? clure » * nd the has gone lorm that the. old pensioner's home for Pso many moons must at last be aewroyed. Doubtless he will be provided | with another, and the way will be made I ™*W-for,the continuation of a waterm wont improvement scheme, or as much or such.as a defacing railway line wil!