DESTRUCTOR SITE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 9

DESTRUCTOR SITE

“TOO VALUABLE FOR CITY DUMP” Apart altogether from the purely aesthetic reason that the city destructor, corporation yards, stables,. etc., are a perpetual eyesore to the majority of the citizens who plead for the city beautiful, Councillor G. Mitchell, in referring to the matter at the last meeting of the City Council, raised the point as to whether this block of land in the ceptre of the city was not altogether too valuable to be used as a “city dump.” He ventured the opinion that if this , block were cut up into building leases the City Corporation would receive a very handsome return, as property in that locality was now very valuable. Only a few weeks ago a petition was handed to the Mayor signed by over a hundred residents of the locality round about the De Luxe Theatre praying that the council would consider the matter of removing the destructor altogether from its present site on the grounds that it was an intolerable nui sance, in that its chimney stack emit ted all kinds of burnt and semi-burnt paper and refuse to such an extent that on certain days they could not open their windows owing to the refuse gaining entrance and befouling the in terior, whilst the womenfolk had often to do their washing twice over on account of the smuts which emanated from the chimney. The Mayor has promised sympathetic consideration.