DISPLACED RESIDENTS
Problems Of Motorways (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON. Oct. 19. Problems >of resiting persons displaced by motorways in built-up areas were discussed by the National Roads Board today, when the Ministry of Works represents, tives, Mr D. J. B. Halley, gave a verbal report on the St. Albans section of the Christchurch urban motorway. Mr Halley said that 366 houses would be affected by the plan. The National Roads Board had already advised the Christchurch authorities that it would not agree to extravagant planning.
“We have found that these things seem better when we look into them." Mr Halley said. “We have found this already with Wellington, where the city council had done much to repair the situation.” The chairman (the Minister of Works. Mr Allen): The Wellington City Council has put some of the old people into pensioner flats. We are grateful to it. A Wellington member: We do have some spare land around the city.
Mr Allen: People forget that in a number of cases the property owners likes to collect his compensation and make his own arrangements.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31195, 20 October 1966, Page 18
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