STATUS OF A STREET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21277, 2 September 1932, Page 12

STATUS OF A STREET

NO NAME OR LIGHTING There seems (o bo some doubt concerning the legal status of tho unnamed new* street through railway property connecting Beach Boad with Tho Strand, just south of the Auckland station. Apropos of a suggestion by a. correspondent that it bo named " Mechanics' Place," tho city engineer, Mr. J. Tyler, reported to the City Council last evening that although the council in 1930 had contributed £IO9O, or half tho extra cost involved in making tho street 66ffc. wide, dedication had not been effected or accepted in the usual way, so far as bo could ascertain. However, a proclamation had been gazetted in August, 1931, stating that tho land was taken for street dedication purposes. Although ho was doubt fid if this was sufficient to create it a legal street or to vest it in tho council, it was for all practical purposes a public thoroughfare, and, this being so, he would suggest that it be named " .Ron ay no Street," after Mr. T. Konayne, a former general manager of railways. On tho motion of the Mayor, Mr. Gr. W, Hutchison, it Was decided to defer consideration of a namo until after the street had been dedicated. Mr. T. Blood ivorth remarked thrft there was a rather urgent need for lights in the street. The IN favor replied that that could also bo dealt with after dedication.