HATAITAI TUNNEL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1261, 17 October 1911, Page 4

HATAITAI TUNNEL.

AND THE KILBIRNIE RESERVE

Tho Hataitai tunnel came in for mention at the meeting of (he Kilbirnio Ratepayers' Association last night. Mr. E. H. l''i=her said that ho understood that probably at the next meeting of the City Council a report about tho tunnel would be brouirht -.down. "1 have no doubt," said Mr. Fisher, "that report "'ill be very interesting. We are all in accord with tho Haiaitai people in wanting to get n TJettor approach to this district." Mr. lusher, proceeding, said that tho question was only one of routes. Ho thought the Kilbirnie raletinyers wero in agreement with the Hataitai peoplo in tho matter of the choice of a route. The matter of the Kilbirnic reserve was introduced by a ratepayer, who said ho thought that twenty-two acres was altogether too small. "You know how Kilbirnie has grown in tho last five years," he said. "In the next fifty years " An interjeetor: "We won't bo here." The TntoTvyor continued, ITe said Hint they needed 40 or 50 acres instead of 22 acres. If in the. next fiftv years Kilhiniie continued at its recent rnto of progress there would then be 300,000 people in Kilbirnic laughed. "Fifty years is not so verv Vine," continned th« enthnsinstic ratepayer, "and if wo don't set tlm 'and now, or soon, it won't bo available."