NELSON'S FORGOTTEN ASSETS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 1 December 1906, Page 2

NELSON'S FORGOTTEN ASSETS.

A* INTERESTING DISCOVISitYi -convent frrfLDiftda off PUBLIO L-iNfii r A few "weeks ago an applicatidti came before the City Council for' j* footpath iii lErlnrStfeet. iildng^icS the Brdgk Stream, between- liaiidkA aiid Bfpnti-streets. , Before yafcce^ iH^ to tilo request the Council he, Tided tb have a feuryey mtide.' Last pyeni-ng.. the rj^ayor reported -tnjit the .aurveyi had. been, wads aifcl revealed, tiiat . the Had had" J^ea built on— *a Ischool house,- cowr-r shed, fowlhouse, a nd a portion ofi a neiv 'brick '"Juilding were on 'tha line of road. Thij 'Mayor said no one appeared - to know of the existence of the street. The 'buildings wero owned by three Convent) ladies-, two of wjiom, wc;re out of JSeiv ZfealaErj; tlie tliird beiHg di HUkltika, a-ijd was not ljkciiy tiidse laUic-s, would Ifno-w anything abbUtl boundaries. Apparently some l)| the^ building's hard been pn tlie foSfct & Ic^time ag-bV its theyr wei-'e knowing signs o( ago?] If atfyoflp (va.? to blame it was tho architects for Ihe '^buildings, as weft pliould 'have made "tliemselves „scqtmintod with the., position^ . ,Tfla Mayor was sure vio CbuiicJUfcr would desire »the Convent' autho^H ties- to pull down the building, and said. 'there r wero two ways out ictf the (difficulty. Ono was for ■ the Council to give a strip- of • laafi that would pass the brick building;, and' to get ian oqvivaleat; from the Convent authorities' j this would necessi lata the 'removal ol the school and cowshed. Tlk( other way was ' for the Convent authorities to give the Council a pieca of Jand and 'agrso to construct a 10ft or 12ft footpath from; Manuka to Bronti-streets, the compensation being the remainder of tho land, and the retention of tha buildings where they now • stood. The ' Mayor said that while tho Council did not want to be hard the interests of the city Tnust bo studied. He movod that the matter 'be referred to the Works Committee. _Cr Harrison seconded the ' mo* tion, and said there was a public oad that "might in the future be a great convenience. While he did not want to do anything harsh, he also did not want to give ttwrtj: atty of tho city's rights ; tho liitci'csts of the city mdst be considered. ' Cr Grace sard tho whole matter should bo very carefully considnred. 'Hie 'Council must think of tho fu* j ture, ;and the road in question might at some ti|me be •>'. veftf j groat value to the city. It wa.-S • most Hihfortunato that part t-t a j ijrick building had been built ofl ■ the road. j Cr Hampson said there was d, : conynqn rumour that this •.\asridt ' I *£ c ° nly ins 'anco of t.ho sort ia 'Iv4 ie "l.v, and h « thought that ifl I Uio immodiato future the Wdrics ' Committee should rm.sianr thb 1 whole matter of putting tlie street lines in shape. Ho believed af- ". rahgements could be made wlioieby perhaps only half 'the nece^ar'_> , cost wpiuld fall on the Council. : . Tho Mayor's . .'motion ' ,was i&ett' , put and carried: