Anti-barrier group must fight alone
Hornby residents will have] to go it alone in their fight! to have a barrier between! two shopping centres removed. A band of residents, calling! [themselves the Hornby Ac-! tion Group, last evening tried] [to get support from the Horn-; |bv District Community Coun-'
The group was given a; sympathetic hearing, but was' told the council had no power, to demand removal of the] barrier. The iron barrier was] erected between the West-] point Shopping Centre and' Woolworths some months! ;ago. However, people merely; ‘climbed over it. Since then, however, a !heavy wooden beam has been; 'added. The beam has been
painted with oil; an act which! the group alleges is a further! attempt to stop people climb-1 ing over the barrier. ln<spite of this, the group! said, people were still climb-j ing the barrier. Mrs J. Oly-i kan told the council that old; people and pregnant womenhad been seen trying to climb! -over it. “Obviously they don’t do! 'this out of habit, but because i it is safer than using the ‘road,” she said. Although the group -said' jthat the Paparua County; ! Council’s development plans. ;for the Hornby shopping area; ihad no provisions for fences,; [the council said it had no; ‘control over the matter. The community council is part: iof the Paparua County Coun-i cil. 1
I The chairman of the community council (Mr J. C. Willson) said there were no bydaws to force the two busiInesses to remove the barrier.] i The group was told that the] (community council had suggested the Paparua Countv I iCouncil mediate in the affair.] I but this had been rejected] ‘by a full meeting of the; ! county council. However, the group was' given an assurance that traffic problems “caused indirectly” by the barrier would' ‘be looked into. According to the group, be-1 ’cause of the barrier there is] only one exit from the West-! point Shopping Centre. This! means vehicles leaving the, (centre’s car-park must cross! 'the path of on-coming traffic.]
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