TOWN HALL SITE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 January 1901, Page 3

TOWN HALL SITE.

(To the Editor.) Sir,— Bo site tor Town Hall, your correspondents of yesterday’s issue would give a stranger of our town the impression that sites suitable for a Town Hall are as thick as blackberry's on a bush. But we of the town know very well there arc but two that may bo called suitable, viz; ; The Church o! England reserve and the Boundary street site. I don’t know whether the Church authorities would be generous enough to give the site to the town and the Native Trust make over the same in perpetuity free of rent. If this is so let the Borough Council by all means take advantage of such generosity and hold the old site in reserve for another thirty years on the principle of keep a thing long enough and you will be sure to find a use for it. But if the Church People and Native Trust want hard cash for utilizing an eyesore in the shape of an iron fence, then by all means I would say to the Gentlemen of the Borough Council and the Ratepayers of the Borough, build your Town Hall on your own freehold site where you will have plenty of room hack and front. And make the balance of (be flat into a mineture park, as Councillor Shecdy suggested when a deputation of Friendly Societies waited on the Borough Councillors to sec if they would give the Societies a site to build a Friendly Societies Hall. But, Mr Editor, before any money is paid for a site I would suggest that a vote of the Ratepayers be taken to settle the question on common sense grounds and I have no fear as to the result. —Yours, etc., E. Hopkins. Boundary Street.