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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6821, 27 September 1883, Page 4

As will bo seen from a notice in anoth column, the sale of tho Surrey jn* Estate has been postponed for the pnrnl* 8 of making an alteration in. the p!a^ sf-:5f-: subdivision, which had elicited'so. in \ public feeling. We have no donbl tfe the plans will be so modified ,k do away with, the 'objections'"'tfcat'lw' l beea raised, the ownefa having that they are amenable to public onmi**" Jt will be observed that there is of motion before the City Councilor ft* subject of this plan of subdivision Coa* ! cillor Phillipps intending to move at tt J meeting of the Council to-day, that ft I Council pledges itself to oppose the <3 ! trict being added to the city, u,a es3 plan i 3 subjected to certain modifieT tions. In the circumstances of the fib* objected to having been now wiiihdraen* aud pending the intended being determined on, the reason f or ~jr a resolution has passed, and it will £a*d] be deemed wis.e that it should he ptesW? Indeed the utility of such aresoltjtj,!;. even in the original circumstances m i»u. have been questioned, inasmuch a& af would lose its effectiveness from th • knowledge that one Gouncil coaU bind its successor, and that a resolution now passed to that effect could be scinded at a future time, whea jL interests of the freehold resident? on th estate would claim the favourable con sideration of the City Council, which bod* would then be reluctant to visit on thf occupants the eins of the original But in the actual circumstances 'of'ft. plan being withdrawn, and the Hirfiw! Board of the district having taken at&n under its legal powers, the of the proposed resolution no longer esistiL Indeed we cannot help thinking that tt* great mistake was made, whence pro! perty was offered to the city on vX reasonable terms and declined- jji when not only might it have become a. lucrative investment, but been allocated or disposed of exactly as the City Council might have deemed it most conducive to the public interest.