"WASHING-UP" BILL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 106, 31 October 1914, Page 8

"WASHING-UP" BILL

WELLINGTON AFFAIRS. Several of the provisions in the "Wash-ing-up" Bill brought down by Governor's Message last night refer to Wellington matters. Clause 42 refers to the oxchange of certain lands between the Crown and the Wellington City Council, for the purpose of enabling the Government to carry out the construction of the new central railway station. Stout-street is to be extended, and Whit-more-street is to be closed and vested in the Crown, subject to the right of the public to pass between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on foot over a footway 12ft wide on the southern side of the street, extending from Lambton-quay to Stoutstreet. The cost of. extending Stoutstreet and of widening Bunny-street between Featherston-street and Waterlooquay and of constructing the whole of ! Bunny-street as so widened for the purpose of providing access to the proposed railway station (not exceeding £673), j will be paid by the Crown, and the City i Council has to pay not less than a similar j amount. | Provision is also made for road devia- \ tion at Day's Bay, and the existing fore- I shore road is legalised and vested in the j Wellington City Council, with the add- \ ed provision that the Hutt County ', Council shall have the right to take all i gravel required for the roads in that part of its district. Clause 52 proposes to validate the closing of certain roads in the borough of Karori, and the disposal by the council of such lands. It is also proposed to give the May Morn Estate, Ltd. , authority to construct a tramway over a small section of Crown land in the Akatarawa district.