NOTHING DECIDED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 7

NOTHING DECIDED

THAT SYDNEY STREET SLIP

Mouths ago heavy rain brought down a fairly heayy slip from the bank. of Anderson Park to Sydney street, and there the slip has stayed ever since, the subject of daily comment by passers-by and a cause of a little extra lighting each night. On Thursday the Works Committee of .the City Council recommended that the plan proposed by the City Engineer for its removal should be adopted.

Councillor .W. H. Bennett explained that about 50 square yards of the park had been lost in the slip, and the proposal was that 90 square yards should bo taken to prevent the likelihood of further slipping.

Councillor Meadowcroft said that all the Reserves Department wanted done was to have the slip itself removed and the upper edge fenced off.

The City Engineer, Mr. G. A. Hart, said that to merely clear the slip away and fence the top edge would be no sort of a scheme at all: more slips would certainly follow. To build a retaining wall, said Mr. Hart, in answer to a question, would cost about £2000. His plan could be carried out mainly by unemployed labour* The land which would be lost to the park would be a narrow triangular area, 20 feet back from the present break at its greatest depth.

The . council threw the clause out, which means that nothing.has been.decided and that there the slip will remain a little longer, certainly for at least three weeks. .

A right-of-way between Ponsonby road, Espin crescent, and Birdwood street will be taken over by the City Council as a public way.