MUNICIPAL ELECTORS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 146, 21 June 1916, Page 2

MUNICIPAL ELECTORS

MEETING OF HATAITAI ASSO

CIATION.

Mr. Leigh Hunt occupied the chair at a well-attended meeting of the Hataitai Municipal Electors' Association, held this week. Several matters affectiug the welfare of the district were brought forward. 1 A sub-committee was appointed to wait upon the Mayor in reference to: (1) The bylaws dealing with air space and street frontages; (2) the encroachment by private individuals upon street reserves, etc.

Messrs. Leigh Huntt, Batt, Bayfield, and Robinson were appointed a deputa*tion to wait upon the Postal authorities to urge the necessity of afc once proceeding with the erection of the post office, the site of which the Department has already acqviired, and the necessary funds have been provided for in the Estimates. During a year many thousands of telegrams alone are sent to and from the district, and the existing arrangements are altogether inadequate to deal with the evergrowing business.

The Hataitai delegate to the Greater

Wellington Town-planning Association was requested to bring forward at the next meeting of that body the question of alteration to the Courtenay-place tram terminus. Many members spoke feelingly of the great risks pedestrians, chiefly women, and children, run daily in boarding and leaving cars at this busy junction. ,

It was reported that certain trees planted in the Post Office Reserve had been wilfully damaged, presumably by the "small boy," and, the matter is to be placed in the hands of the police;