JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1196, 3 August 1911, Page 8

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

IBs T<*Jecrai>h.—SDecial Correspondent.! WOODEN BUILDINGS AND BY-LAW. Customs duties collected at the port of Wangnnui for July totalled ,I'iWSO ins. !)d., ail increase of .£!!',lli 2?. 10(1. on the figures for Ihe corresponding month last year. The site of the Anglican Church, which has mado such a large gap in the lower part of the Avenue ever since the birth of Wanganui, will soon be half-filled with business premises, building having already commenced on sections recently leased by the Church authorities. The other half of the church acre will be reserved for the now church. A meeting will be held this week to form a branch of the Wellington Hotel Employees' Union, with a view to serving 011 employers demands similar to those recently agreed to at Napier. The Wansamii Borough Council last night refused two applications for permission to build walls of extension to existing buildings in wood instead of brick. Arising out of ono of the applications, which has been before the council for seme time, an attempt waS made by a section ot' the council to have the bylaw waived so that wood walls could be. built. It appears that, for the last eleven years, the by-law lias been interpreted in such a way as to allow of wood in such eases, but the new borough engineer interpreted it differently, and refused a. permit, and tlio borough solicitor advised that the engineer was in the right. It was urged that, as the council had permitted the old order for so long, they might as well go on in the same way. Also that, as (ho by-law would shortly bo repealed, it would not be worth while risking the expense of the test cose which might ensue. The repeal of the by-law, however, is only preparatory to the enactment of a new-by-law, requiring buildings to bo nil brick without even wooden frontages, and, evidently bearing this in mind, (lie council rejected the motion in favour of having the provisions of tlio by-law set asido to meetthis particular case.