DOMINION NEWS.
WELLINGTON CIVIC AFFAIRS.
(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
WELLINGTON, March 19,
The City Council has decided that leases of corporation leaseholds having perpetual rights of renewal for terms of fourteen years, could extend them to twenty-one years on the payment of a rent equal to 4$ per cent, on the unimproved values. It was stated that the short term prevented good buildings from being erected, and that city solicitor and valuer were both in favour of the alteration.
Labour members opposed the variation of the contracts on the ground that it was giving away the unearned increment which belonged to the city, but they were defeated by 11 to 5 votes.
An agitation was recently started against kerbside petrol pumps, and there was an inclination to abolish them, but the city engineer reported in their favour, under strict conditions to prevent blocking of the traffic.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 March 1926, Page 5
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146DOMINION NEWS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 March 1926, Page 5
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