STREET-WIDENING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 608, 10 September 1909, Page 6

STREET-WIDENING.

■S: "A , . LEASE.IN WILLIS STBEBT. ;Ti«. Finance .CommiUee of. the .City Council. Tecornmondcd last .evening:— ... : ■. . offer of Mi. ,G. H. Goodall to ■ . itake'the sum of'.£4oo for the-suri-ender of his le«ie'of premises in Willis Street- be '■ accepted.' . . ' ' . ' Councillor Doyine opposed the. recommendai tion. Hβ understood that Mr. Goodall had . applied some months.ago for his lease to be i taken over, and-had -asked .a , largo amount. The committee then considered that JE4OO was ustiiSeient offe'ri'but Mr. Good&U'continued to / ask';a : .larger/sum;' The,lease was. getting less valuable, not more valuable every < day, the- ' council was not:i» a position at thepresent 1 time to spend any. money on-street-widening, , '. and other important street work would have - to be postponed if the recommendation were ; agreed to. ■ . . .. -■■ '-.'. • . Councillor Luke pointed out that'when the [ council acquired this .lease it would have coni trol of the whole block from the Empire Hotel : to : Chew's lane. ...If the council didnot ac- ; quirq the lease'someone else inight do so, and it might be necessary' to pay more at a" future \ .date: •" ' • i The Mayor stated-that if the council decided ■ to pull down the present buildings, and lease the site, .the acquisition of the lease would cost ■ the, council nothing.-, If it decided to put back I the frontage, that would cost some hundreds - of ponnds. When this frontage was put back, , the widening of this part of Willis Street • : would be uniform. The lease had six years to ' run.: :■■..'■ ' . -.''•'.. ■ , After further discussion, the recommendation ' was agreed to. : ' " - •. It was also agreed that the sum of , J375 be 1 paid t6 Miss Eves for 12ft. of her Innd : at [ the corner of Davis Street and Thorndon . Quay, the council to bear x the./legal expenses r and the cost of shifting fences. , =:■;.: - :; . ; •■ • , ::, ;-■•••■ '. : .