NOTICE TO TENANTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 16

NOTICE TO TENANTS

SCOTCHING BAY BACHES

FIVE YEARS' GRACE

The wisdom of requiring occupiers of houses or baches at Scorching Bay to vacate remove them at once, so clearing the reserve area to enable it to be used for public purposes, was questioned by Councillor W. Appleton |nt last night's meeting of the Cily j Council. Councillor appleton said that even though the land had been handed to the city as a public reserve it woulfi be deplorable if the occupiers of houses or baches at Scorching Bay were deprived of their homes, when through the shortage of houses ihere was nowhere for them to go. Several of those : living at the bay, he understood, were married men with families. The Mayor (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) said that when the council took over the area .as a domain there were a number of houses and baches upon itsome quite substantial buildings, others not—and notice was given to the occupiers that they would be required to remove at the end of Ave years, but that in the meantime they could remain on the land at a merely nominal rental. The point was that the area was a reserve and must be used for reserve purposes. At the same time consideration must be given to cases where hardship would be caused: the matter could be left in the hands of the reserves committee, which would bring apy particular cases before the notice of the council. SOME EXTENSIONS GRANTED. Councillor J. Burns, chairman of the reserves committee, said that several of the occupiers had already had extensions of time. If the position was to be extended and extended indefinitely, there would be no end to it, and the sooner those occupying land on the reserve realised that they would have to remove the better. Councillor A. Black agreed with Councillor Appleton that the present was not the time to order people out of their homes. He did not, of course, refer to weekenders. The Mayor said that' the representations which might be made would be sympathetically considered where difficulty or hardship was likely to be caused.