COMPENSATION?

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1924, Page 9

COMPENSATION?

'■'-- ■ - ' -. ' . . • • : ; EVANS BAY^ STATION.

Mifch?n Ti \ aS a?k? d Councillor th r; £ JaS-V:. e/ el"ng's- meeting of ■nSnS-t? lf the Powei' Stations Committee ; had yet given consideration to a suggestion made by the .Chief Justice «iat the. payment' of compensation to residents of KilbirnieiEast'whose premises might have suffered as a result of smoke and grit from the Evans Bay power-house should be ;a " matter for amicable arrangement with the Corporation and not for. litigation. Councilor (Mitchell also asked when . the 'special •plant to put _ an end to the nuisance was likely to arrive in Wellington that the department's own contrivance had already reduced the nuisance by 75 per cent., but it did not wholly conibat •j . uneW planfc sh?uld arrive by the end_ pf the year, and the committee.was waiting, till! it ■ was absolutely satisfied that trouble was cured before going further, ' otherwise' if. compensation matters . were _ considered and., any \ trouble continued it would simply, mean that a tresh crop of complaints would be made, ihe committee was anxious, • whether it was legally liable or not, that there stiould be no nuisance; As : 6 oori as ~.the trouble was cured the -whola matter would be gone into. •■■... „ ' Councillor Mbnteith. asked whether the question of compensation would be inquired- into, shortly or - -when the plant was1 installed. '„ ■, •. ■. ■ • „

The Mayor replied that'the'matter would not: be discussed until, all cause for reasonable complaint had been re moved. . '■■/.■■

_ Councillor Luckie expressed the opinion that the idiscussion was premature, for, though the matter was- not sub judice, negotiations between council and residents would no doubt be continued ■ Councillor Gaudin said; that he believed that as soon as the grit nuisance was stopped the complaints would cease altogether; there would then be no depreciation of property.