SURREY HILLS ESTATE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6819, 25 September 1883, Page 6

SURREY HILLS ESTATE.

TO THE EMTOB. Sir, —Clause 156 of the Road Boards provides—" After the passing of this Act any ' fioad" Board may prohibit the laying out of any .road within the boundaries of the road district, unless Buch road shall be at least one chain in width." As there is nothing to prevent the so called rights-of-way 16 feet wide shown,, on plan of this estate being used as roads, .it is evident the lload Board have a veto, and will exercise it to prevent what, ■without legislation to preclude, would necessarily become streets,, if not at once, >at some . future time, as they have in all other colonial towns. No provision seems.,, to have been made for : open spaces" 'or for public convenience of any | description, and the public are indebted to you for ventilating a subject of such vital importance to the welfare of the city. While the city authorities have been straining all their energies to obtain sites and give all they possibly can to conserve the public health, ws are now asked to endorse the layini> out of an area equal to one-half of the old city, without the slightest,provision for cither the public health or conveuience, not even to a cabstand! or street latrine.—l am, &c., Advance.