PUBLIC CONVENIENCE

Northern Advocate, 7 May 1930, Page 9

PUBLIC CONVENIENCE

SITE QUESTION AGAIN DISCUSSED. £250 PLACED ON ESTIMATES. The Whangarei Borough Council is approaching its twentieth resolution concerning the convenience. At the meeting on Monday night another, of the proposed sites was definitely put out of court by the following intimation from tlie solicitors for the estate of J. B. Mann, deceased, (The letter was in reply to the council’s inquiry ns .to the terms upon which a sale would be made of Part 1, Lot 12, Path bone Street):—-“Assuming that the land is required by your council for the purpose of a public convenience, we are directed to state that the owners are not willing to sell the land to the council at any price. They are of opinion that the erection of a public convenience on Lot 12 would injuriously affect their adjoining sections.” PROPOSED SCRAPPING.

The Works Committee recommended that the Rathbone Street convenience be moved to the other side of the Rathbone Street-Kobert Street intersection and that an amount of £2-id be placed on the estimates for the work and the present convenience

scrapped. Cr. Tibbits moved, seconded by Cr. Holmes, that the report be adopted. As an amendment, Cr. Brake moved, seconded by Cr. Bainsby, that the report be adopted, with deletion, of tho clause concerning the Rathbone. Street convenience. On tho grounds that if the convenience was shifted further down Rathbone Street trouble would arise when, building took place, Cr. Jackson said that he was not prepared to support the motion, and preferred a site in Duke Street. THINGS AS THEY ARE. Cr. Pickmerc was against the motion because he did not think that anything adequate for the town could be const meted for the money. Although a report had been asked for, there was nothing before the meeting regarding the proposed lowering of tho present convenience, and he considered tho -suggested installation of a pipe-line/ | sower from lower down the street I should be investigated. 1 The voting was equal. 1 The Mayor; “I suppose I will have 1 to follow the time-honoured custom of leaving things as they are. My castling vote will therefore be for the [amendment.” j ON ESTIMATES AT LAST!

Cr. Curtis then moved that a sum of £2oo lie placed on the estimates to deal with the convenience. He described the existing convenience as a disgrace to the town, and was insistent that something; must be done during the year. The Mayor said that if the sum was fixed at £IOO he would second the motion, Tt was possible that the existing building could be renovated. Cr. Jackson was prepared to seeond the motion in any event, and thought Hint it should be made stronger by adding ♦hat the existing convenience be scrapped within three months.

Tin 1 motion was carried. Cr. Curtis was overheard to remark: ri ‘At'ter five years’ battling!” Later Cr. Curtis gave notice to move that the existing convenience be scrapped, contending that this was the only way in which any definite result would come about.