THE CITY MORGUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14304, 25 February 1910, Page 7

THE CITY MORGUE.

MATTER; AGAIN "DEFERRED.

For the second: time the Works Committee:- recommended that the city morgue be erected; on 1 . the site at the south-cast corner or.Patteson"-arid? Union Streets, the committee being unable .to. see any better, site. For Tt'ho"" second .time,'also,: the ' committee was asked to "try again." ' . - , Mr. : fEntrican. opposed the : recommendation. The morgue should, be placed on the waterfront. .' The'*- Harbour Board <• would soon) be offering leases in Beaumont-street, and he ; thought .it'.'•. would- be '.well. for ; the Council ;to negotiate for one of these sections for the morgue. It '.would: be wrong to ; erect ..it; on the Council's*; property in Patteson-street. The latter .-.was the main thorough faro; to' Ponsohby, and ". before long ho ventured. to say the Council's area there (dcstruQ,to'r : site); would contain j a block of building? that would be a credit to the city, 'lie moved the reference of the clause back to the Works Committee to consider the question of-securing a ; site from the. Harbour Bbird.:"■■".- »*.'-" .- * .'»'"' ;' \

' Mr. Tudehope, ;in seconding tlio motion, concurred with the mover that the p'.ncing of tli© morgue in Patteson-street would 1 bo a detriment to that street. The presence of the city destructor there had deteriorated the value of adjacent property. [ Mr. -..Smeeton^said the proposed . morgue would not be an -eyesore, as Messrs: Entrican:"and Tudehop? suggested. ■-'- There was a handy comer available for it in behind high, walls. , The •, committee's '• recommendation should be adopted., ' V . '< Mr.'Mennie deprecated further delay in the? matter. It- had already besrTfully considered by the Works Committee, which considered that the Paiiteson-street-'site.! was the best. If a morgue was so objectionable, ; who was going to' buy the other sections in-Beaumont-street that Mr. Entrican said the Harbour Board was goint» to let or lease?' .; If : the .morgue was a nuisance, lot it bo put alongside the ; 'other, nuisance, the destructor. '■/: The Beaumont-street site proposed' had -all'- 1 the objections of .; the othoi one, and was too far away;from, the centre. . Mr. Parr opposed the committee's re commendation, ■;-;'arid said ; if the '•• mbrgu< was erected in Pat teson-st rest it _ woulc be a' monument to '« Mr. Smeeton, anc Oiould s;bet'called' after-.that ; gentleman ITie ■Beaumont-street site \ was,- the •.. ven site for? the v morgue. * '

Mr. Bagnall scouted the idea 'of , a morgue, being so: objectionable as was made out.,- ' * ..

The motion to refer v the , matter back 'to the Works Committee was ; carried : by .a*, substantial 1 majority. ■ •,