CITY BUS TERMINAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20619, 18 July 1930, Page 12

CITY BUS TERMINAL.

THE OLD DOCK SITE. PLAN NOT PRACTICABLE. Financial and legal difficulties have caused the breakdown of t.liß City Council's tentative proposals to acquire the northern portion of the old dock sile in Quay Street from the Harbour Board for a motor-bus terminal station. Reporting last evening, the Council's Townplanning Committee stated that in view of the heavy financial responsibility connected with the acquisition of the property, and the failure to induce the other authorities concerned to enter fully into the scheme, it would recommend that no action be taken. The recommendation was adopted. The Harbour Board, in a letter, stated that the board in committee was prepared to recommend that the land specified he sold to the council for £67.500. a price 25 per cent, less than the valuation. Two legal opinions from the city solicitor were also received. In these he stated various difficulties in the way of requiring the Transport Board and other bus proprietors to use the station, or of levying a charge, whether or not the land were dedicated as a street, especially as the buses were licensed hv a body other than the council. The council, he said, could not rely upon having any legal power to charge for tradio facilities i;i the streets, and if they were to be provided off the street legislative authority would be desirable.