"FOR REMOVAL."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18567, 17 December 1925, Page 8

"FOR REMOVAL."

COTTAGE FROM <«BRICKS"

SITE.

JOKE ON DRAINAGE BOARD.

This month has witnessed tho removal of tho last habitation from the rivcrbank. Recently tho Drainage Board sold the cottage on "The Bricks" site for £ls, "for wwM and it has boon removed to a coalyard at the corner of Oxford terrace and Baxbadoes street. Perhaps a joke has been perpetrated on the Drainage Board by tae -purchaser of the cottage, who has merely shifted it across the street, it is stated that it js to.be .lot as a dwelling. Smoke we* lMUing. from the chimney last evening, indicating that it is occupied at present. The chakman of the Works Comm.ttee of tho City Council, and a member of the Christchurch Beautifying Association, stated yesterday that the joke appeared to be on the Drainage Board. It had sold the cottage "for removal" without stipulating that removal" meant demolition. As far as he knew there wi» no ™™ »] "» cottage, which was built of kauri and totaxa. He understood that it had been passed by the Oty Council Inspector as a perfectly sound house Under the <aroumstances the Uity Council could not refuse permission for the removal of the cottage Ihe Beautifying Association had nothing to do with the matter. Mr B>. B Owen stated that be was amazed when he saw the cottage ben ing taken across the road to tbe coalYard. It was absurd, he, said, that the by-laws of the City should allow suoh a thing to happen within hatf a mile of the Square. The man who had bought the house for £l6 had certainly got a big bargain. But it was a farce that he should be allowed to shift it only a few yards.