WIDENING WILLIS STREET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 514, 22 May 1909, Page 5

WIDENING WILLIS STREET.

BtJSIKESS PEOPLE IMPATIENT DEPUTATION TO THE MAtOR li :.Business piople. of Willis Street. ats bcdelay; ! .;7."'to' - tte'Jirt:bMM,:.cl«c'',4Utidflites to Wklbh.. that'-. mucli.;congested. : tliofoughfiire, ..Willis: . ; Street. At . ftMSont,' "parts .'of. it are cx■V cellfint," as the 'timid..curate remarked w'hen. questionodj: at his Bishop's - brcakfnstrtablo, i'Vas/.ti'tlji Equality ,of 'th'e egg : hA was eyeing. / somewhat'.doubtftilly, : Here 'and there the', •widening process has-- boeii completed,."giving: a'nroSpcct 6t better tltiitgS to come, but there 'v ; Bti)l'- j roUittin- from- • the. rf 6yiSr'sj ? 'td.Hhe ! 'detnment'' of': thfe street; and the -bußinets .people of . the rcaliscd thia. . . . >■■. iyjiTliife.dissatisfaotionh'jQUhdLieyp'rc'ssion ' at ; a 6mall ;but .deputation of /Wil-: lis Strftot.business-pooplo, which:waited oil. tho Mayor (Dr. A. K. Newman)) at the Town . Hall mofmng. ; ' , ' Mr.. R. W. Shallcrass, who was the. prin- : ; ■ cipal speaker, oxplaiij'c-d that; it was wo-fepl-. - ing of business people in Willis Street that tho delay in 'Setting back the rfimaipder o! the: prfijeoting blocks of 'buildings m that : thoi"6nghfarb . was reaoting-to:.their .dqinmor- ■ oial detritneht. . He' roferrod , particularly 'to : ih<i block, in which, tho Restaurants of _Messrs.; Gopdall, and. Lyons, aid ; G0.,, .wtre situjitod., ; .This rbloqkVwas tho property: of' . the ... Ciity' .Oouflcil| .and, :as tho- sotting baol; of the. buildingß wpukl enhance its value, thoy, oould ■ --Dot, understand the They wdro thew '■ .to .Urge that the'matter ;bo expedited. . r i Other speakers having , expressed! , , them- ,i '. tolvw in ,Bupport, ( the -Mayor said that ,tlio I 'tattttor Vbb an. inheritance-frrtfli a previous I ' ' legimß. It wns his-intention to clear oS all I arrears of this and-similar works whioh were ponding. He woukl have tho matter submitted t6 v tho i I'ublic Accounts Committee ■■■■• for a report. and would thon see what could '-x '-V : -, :: Tho deputation, having thW«<d tho Mayor,■ that Withdrew. ' '*. .. . , x