REST PARK FOR WELLINGTON

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 46, 18 November 1936, Page 13

REST PARK FOR WELLINGTON

Suggestion Made at City Council Meeting A suggestion that the Wellington City Council should buy the Bank of New Zealand block to provide a rest park was made at a special meeting of the council yesterday afternoon when it was considering the adoption of the bylaw making the width of Hunter Street between Customhouse Quay and Lambton Quay 60 feet. Cr. J. Burns suggested that the council might be able to use some of the subsidy money provided bj 7 the Government for provincial centennial memorials for buying the land. If the council owned the block it could widen Customhouse Quay, Lambton Quay and Hunter Street, and would still have enough land left over to make a rest place. The block was the smallest between Willis Street and the railway station and would be never bought cheaper. Visitors would be able to sit there and "enjoy the traffic and the' beauties of the city.” The mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, said that it seemed that, as far as it was possible to estimate, the amount of subsidy available for the Wellington provincial district would be about £30,000. Purchase of the land mentioned would cost £300,000. Cr. Burns said he would not care much if it cost £500,000. The amendment to the by-law regarding the widening of the street, debated at length by the last meeting of the council, was adopted by nine votes to seven.