THE MARKET.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19715, 4 September 1929, Page 10

THE MARKET.

BUILDERS ASK QUESTIONS. IRON SHEDS AND CITY BYLAWS. Members of the Canterbury Master Builders' Association doubt very much whether the market in Worcester street, formerly conducted by the City Council, complies with the building bv-laws, and they intend to ask the Council a direct question about the matter. . , , , At last night's meeting or the Association, the president (Mr W. P. Glue) said that thev had protested about the architecture of the Municipal Market, and if it was not complying with the by-laws the Association should demand that it be pulled down The building was not an open shed, as detinea in the by-laws, and therefore had been erected in contravention of them, and it must annoy those interested m town planning. Mr W. H. Winsor (secretary): It s a disgrace to the City, and always was. I alwavs admired the temerity of the Council that went ahead with the market. It ignored its own bylaws It was a failure as a municipal venture. We put them back into power A voice: Speak for yourself. Mr Winsor said he had asked the Mayor why he had not started the thing properly. He had drawn attention to the "dust. Now the Council had sold the market, apparently with the idea that the new purchasers should use it for the same purpose for a time. "They are flouting us," said Mr Winsor. "They were plucky and gave it a go. and it failed as we said Tt would. Now thev should wipe it off the face of Christehureh " Mr J. W Graham suggested that they should find out who was the architect of the building, and set him to sisrn their plans for thorn. (Laughter.) Another member commented on the fact that the supervisor of the market had been appointed an inspector of nuisances. "He should make a good one." said the sneaker Mr Winsor: Yes. he's had twelve months' experience of it. He said thev should fo down the next morning nnd see whether the iron on the hnildincr was of the gauge required by the hv-lavvs Member-! discussed + he question of whether the new purchasers had the right to conduct the market for an unlimited pewiod Mr Glue moved that the Association make a protest neninst the continuance of the buildings now used as a mnrket. if it was proved that thev did not comnly with the building by-laws: nnd in the event of their not complying, that a demand be made that the buildings be made to comply with the by-laws. Mr Glue said they were not objecting to them as a market, but only as hiri'dincs. Mr X McGillivray said that if the Council did comnel the new owners to pull down the buildings, thev should shp it for compensation. Mr Glue: They have trot one on to us if that is so: they told us it was oniv temporary, when it was first erected. The motion was carried unanimously.