CORSAIR BAY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21686, 21 January 1936, Page 16

CORSAIR BAY

——♦- IMPROVEMENTS TO ACCESS DISCUSSED Proposals for the improvement of access to Corsair Bay were mentioned at the meeting of the Lyttelton Borough Council last night. Cr. Sargentina asked if the council was in favour of continuing a road from the reclamation area near the dock, round the waterfront through Magazine Bay ,to Corsair Bay, provided the consent of the Defence Department could be obtained. The Mayor said the proposal was a big one. It had already been considered by the Harbour Board, but the Defence Department had refused its consent. He was of opinion that the council would be unable to finance such a scheme at the present time. The proposal should be kept in view and the Minister for Employment should be approached and asked that it be made a work for unemployed men. < Cr. Sargentina said that Corsair Bay was not being sufficiently exploited. A suggestion had also been made that passenger trains should run to the reclamation ground, thus shortening the distance to the bay. Cr. Morris said he had already been in communication with the present Minister for Railways regarding a proposal to run the trains to the reclamation ground and to cut a track for pedestrians up the hillside to meet the present track. The matter was under consideration by the department.