ROAD ON GENTLE ANNIE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 9

ROAD ON GENTLE ANNIE

BOROUGH COUNCIL LAND

NEW ROUTE PROPOSED

The nequisitioimf land for a new road on Gentle Annie concerns the Gisborne Borough Council. whicMi approved at last night’s meeting an adjustment to ti,e boundaries of a reserve on the hill.

The finance committee reported as follows

"The committee, in company with representatives of the Cook County Council and the lessees of the council's reserve, visited Gentle Annie, where the Cook County proposes taking certain borough land for Ihe purposes of a road. “The land to ho taken comprises a total area of 1 acre 2 roods 24.9 perches, and the committee recommends the council to accept £l2 as compensation, and the County Council to re-erect all fences removed, also the drafting yards of the lessee which are situated on portion of the land to lie taken, the Gisborne Borough Council to grant the lessee a reduction of 11s in the total annual rental, as- from April 1, 1936. The lessee intimated that- the re-erection of the fences and yards, and the reduction in rental would satisfy his claim.

"The committee also viewed a small area of land on the boundary of the Gentle Annie quarry reserve, which was surveyed as a road, and lias been used by the public for the past 35 years, hut was not legalised l . The county now proposes to legalise this road, and Ihe committee.- recommends that no objection he offered.” The report was adopted.