WOODEN BUILDING IN POST OFFICE BLOCK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11504, 28 September 1915, Page 2

WOODEN BUILDING IN POST OFFICE BLOCK.

GOVERNMENT AND CITY BYLAWS. " i'be fitv Mirreror reports/' jaid i!ic Mayor hit night, "that the (io- ■« enmu'iii; is erecting a -wooden, building in the post office block contrary to the city by-laws, which provide that any building in *.:teii a locality must, ho or s.tonc. brick or concrete." 1 ho by-laws do not< apply to Crown lands," the Mayor continued, and cannot bo enforced in respect to the buildine. lint lam of opinion, that the Government.- should fiiudy the desires of local authorities. and not commit what,. in the ease of a private individual. would be a flagrant breach ot the- by-latvs- J. also think ihat SiK:l'i a disregard, for the. City Council's whites is, to say the least of it-, discourrcon-'. i think [he council iJ:o»i!d p.T.-s a. resolution against the erection of a wooden building in Herelord Sired, close to the Union Bank, and should insist on the creation of a building more in keeping with the locality, and nor, a menace to the surrounding buildings.'' Commit'or >.>. (1. Sullivan .said thai tJio action wf!i-. a, most flagrant abuse of power. He moved' that f.h-o conneil idir.iijd take sarong exception to the Government's action in committing a. flagrant brr.'ich of Ihe by-law. Couii.e.iJ.lor .1. AY. .Beanhmd' said thai ib«> (-iovernmcnt ahv,i\.-, did a;-- it liked, and in <!rainago mal tors carried out, its <wn ,' : pcc:!icai.ionv, regardless of the isvy's by-laws. The hiuti'in was carried. and it was iv>solve<t in '..'iid a. copy of tho motion to every Camerlmry member of Parliament.