28-ACRE BLOCK

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 283, 14 November 1929, Page 10

28-ACRE BLOCK

SUBDIVISION SCHEME HELD UP HOUSE IN LINE OF PROPOSED ROAD. For many months the subdivision of the recently reclaimed 28-acre block has been the subject of negotiations between the Napier Harbour Board and the Napier Borough Council and again it came before the former body at its monthly meeting yesterday. Mr. A. E. Jull, chairman, pointed out that the requirements of the council made it necessary for the board to alter its subdivisions! pfun as a house on what was intended to be the road could not be removed. Mr. J. H. Joll, in urging that the house ought to be shifted, stated that it would make an ugly kink in the road and would be an everlasting blot on the town. The Napier people should remember that the country people looked upon their town as the front door for the district, and though the townspeople might not be interested in the way the planning was being done the country people were. The country people were not opposed to the town but were anxious to see it go ahead. Mr. P. Higgins; This is assuring. Mr. E. A. Goodger: None of them are. Mr. Higgins proceeded to explain the position regarding the. suggested removal of the house, pointing out that the house was built. in its

present position on a joint agreement by the council, the board and the reclamation syndicate many yeare ago. Mr. Higgins claimed that Mr. Jull sought and made opportunities to mispresent the council’s position in regard to the approval of the subdivisional plan, which, he considered, was not the spirit for the two bodies to negotiate in. Mr. Jull: You must withdraw the suggestion that I seek opportunities to misrepresent.

Mr. Higgins, in withdrawing that particular remark, said that in a report which was coming before the board later Mr. Jull created the opportunity to make attacks upon the borough. The council, he said, had other subdivisions! plans constantly coming before it and had to insist upon standard specifications. tf special treatment was given to the board it would have to be given to others.

Mr. E. A. Goodger was strongly against any curve in the road and considered that the Borough Council should see that the house was removed, Mr. J. E. Jones said it was most anomalous that the whole subdivision of the 28-acre block depend on one house.

Mr. Jull: It is unfair to expect the Harbour Board to make a road that would not otherwise have to be made. The board then decided to write to the borough asking that the alignment of the road be reconsidered with the object of adopting the original plan even if it involved the purchase and removal of certain buildings.