QUEEN-STREET SURPRISE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14530, 18 November 1910, Page 5

QUEEN-STREET SURPRISE.

S guiLDINGS ON THE STREET A SURVEYOR'S REPORT important statement in regard to ai in' aßgnmmt of ; * portion *of the busiest par §s>>'> v, i A.ito n -street was made at the meetins HK City Council last night. I buildings on a the street In JL SURVEYOR'S REPORT. illiw statement in regard to ai ~ • alleged inaccuracy in the alignment of : f%|fciaderable portion of the busiest par 'of Qilsen-street was mad© at the meetim {0y the City Council last night. v Ife/ In connection with a discussion regard I f the plane of the new buildings to) I If"' Iff .Messrs- Snieeton and Co., the Mayor (Mr, |p . Ult. J. Bagnallj remarked that, according 111 I •'-. to the report of the Government surveyor | Hi} /jff. Langmuir), which had been for I' -5/ w4 rctetl 10 the Council, all the buildings !© ! Mm the, west side of Queen-street, from - T ,r Custom-street to Swanson-strcet, . oil' VS: jjaachea on the street line. The encroach- •• ~ 'meet- according to the Government sur\i ;iX veyor, was no less than eight feet at : 10, -•> ' jfcsare. Smeeton's premises, where re ; p' • ;'? building operations are to De commenced »'• * early next year, the distance running out 10 xv-nothing a short distance above Swan--1I , • - ata-street. , , . p.- -f" l '""What are you going to do about it, ■ g OTr Worship?" asked Mr. C. J. Parr. bSK' :,; je-'wa» you give us a lead in the matter?" ; f |- ■ irfhe Mayor said the matter was now 9 , idling investigated 'by the Works ComWEMgi mittee. i ImviAccording to the plan furnished by Mr. Jujigmuir, the greatest encroachment is IT I ji' the Waitemata Hotel site, it being 'i {here no less than ten feet- It gradually jf- i narrows down, being eight feet at Messrs. !| J'-- premises, and about a foot at I 'the north side of Swanson-street, and above a*' gwanson-street- the encroachment is only J '" J matter of inches, running out to nothing I - | at about Messrs. Milne and Choyce's pres ~'l • V:-?||sges. The Works Committee is now col- - - .Ejecting information with a view, if the J "'jjifleace is sufficient, of obtaining a de- ; %ahe legal judgment upon the matter.