Amuri Council’s Attitude To Hanmer Subdivision
The Amuri County Council appeared to be “dragging the chain” in its approach to the opening of a subdivision for housing at Hanmer Springs, speakers at a meeting last evening of the Canterbu®' Progress League agreed. Mr H. H. Deans, chairman of the league's forestry and land development committee, reported on a meeting witA the Hanmer Springs Ratepayers’ and Residents' Association.
He said that more than 70 persons were interested in obtaining sections at Hanmer Springs A subdivision of Crown land was being held up because of the insistence of the Amuri County Council’s health inspector that a sewerage system be installed before any houses were built in the subdivision. The Lands and Surrey Department had indicated that purchasers in the proposed subdivision could obtain the freehold of sections.
A member of the league’s deputation to Hanmer Springs said that four State Electricity Department houses had been built at Hanmer Springs and they had septic tanks. The local residents maintained that the land in
the proposed subdivision was ideal for septic tanks. The Amuri County Council, another member said, would naturaly want all houses in the subdivision on the sewerage system if it installed one. This would be the only economic way to arrange things. Therefore the county would be against septic tanks to individual houses as long as it had a sewerage system to be put in “in the foreseeable future.” Mr R. F. Lochhead: The Amuri County Council is not very enthusiastic. It seems to be dragging the chain. Mr E. W. F. Harrop said that the proposed subdivision appeared to provide more than 90 sections. He said that the whole of the Hanmer Springs township was on a sewerage system. Mr Deans said that a meeting between the county council and representatives of the Lands and Survey Department was to be held soon. He suggested that the league write to the residents’ association informing it of this. The league could take the matter further, in support of the residents' association, if the outcome of the meeting did not speed up the subdivision.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30092, 28 March 1963, Page 17
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