AMBULANCE SITE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 6

AMBULANCE SITE

HARBOUR BOARD TERMS

COUNCIL DISAPPROVES

ALTERNATIVE AREAS

The Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, stated at last night's meeting of the City Council that a difficulty had arisen in regard to the Free Ambulance site, but that he anticipated that a satisfactory solution would be found by the ambulance building being erected on the adjoining land, subject to the boating clubs agreeing to the exchange. Tho position had been put before him by the Building Committee of the Free Ambulance, said Mr.. Hislop. It appeared that running right along the property on which the present ambulance building stood, and in part under the building, was a reservation for a right-of-way in favour, of the Harbour Board and the council, and if the ambulance erected a new building it would have to bo on the landward side of that way, which would leave no room for such a building. The Harbour Board, however, was prepared to agree to a removal of the sito of the way, but that would involve the building of a sea wall to carry the way further to tho seaward. £7000 FOR WALLING. - Tho Free Ambulance would be required to construct the wall, which it was estimated, would cost £3000, but the Harbour Board made tho further condition that the City Council must agree to carry the wall along to Odlin's, tho cost being estimated at £4000 within twelve years. Several, councillors: ."Ohl" _Mr. Hislop said that it seemed to him to be an excellent way for the Harbour Board to have carried out at the expense of others a work that it would have to have done in any case sooner or later, and he had suggested to the ambulance that the best solution, would be for the council to give them another site, and had suggested that they might be able to arrange to exchange sites with either tho Star or the Wellington Rowing Clubs. The deputation had agreed. with the. idea, but had so far not carried negotiations with the clubs very. far. He. did not, however, anticipate that there would be any great difficulty. ' The way he looked at it was that the council did not wish to force the ambulance to spend £3000 of its money, any more than it wished to spend £4000 of, its own. . To Councillor Gaudin, Mr. Hislop said that the difficulty would not face the boating clubs, as they did'not .wish to 'Build, while the exchange site'would offer the' ambulance room to- build inside the right-bf>way.".'.•-" The 'matter was left to the' Mayor and' Councillors Gaudin, Huggiris, and Appletbn to deal with.