PROPOSED NEW STREET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14144, 16 June 1920, Page 5

PROPOSED NEW STREET.

QUEEN STREET TO CHAPEL STREET. DEPUTATION WAIT ON BOROUGH COUNCIL. A deputation representing the ratepavers who had signed a petition that the Council take it poll on a proposal to raise a' loan for a new street trom Queen street to Chape Istreet, waited on ■ the Borough Council mooting last evening. w-- „ Mr .1. Caselberg was spokesman tor the deputation, and explained the . obieets of the deputation., Mr Caselberg stated: —“ Mo., .representing the 500 petitioning ratepayers of the-borough of Masterton,. petition that vou take the .necessary steps,.-to. acquire the land .for, and tp,.construct,, a cross street front ,Queen-, street -to Chapel street, through Part Section Masterton,; and to take a general; pH • for a loan for sueli purposes.' 'dour petitioners . understand that Give estimated cost of , the acquisition ot land and complete. construction of the street is under £5500., , Your, .pcti.tionors ,' are further informed that ;contributions in cash towards the street-^wUU-be : .obtained froili persons whose properties will be specially benefited to the extent of £2500, lettVing the net cost to the borough as a whole -approximately, TdOOO. Your petitioners point out that 'if' buildings- ate'' erected on the vacant lands the present'Ojiporl-Uii-• itv, of. cheaply acquiring this very necessary street will be fin ally-gone'.'Yotft-petitioners do not think it neces|arv to stress* the very great convctynMfr tips street will be to the inhabitants of the borough generally, nor the additionalsecurity it will afford by enabling the Fire Brigade to get quickly, awpy to extinguish fires on properties, m. Chapel street and streets opening off Chapel

street.” „ , , . “The £2500 has been,collected,am*;, 1 ?, now. on deposit in .the -names, :°l:,,t it.. trustees, viz., Messrs D. Ogilvv, lx. Russell and myself,” stated Mr ~ elberg. “Wo suggest that the loan foi the.balance of money new,street be P ut before- ttiVfets at the Earliest possible date, and. that the loan be a separate, issue. I .might mention that in order to get thi, ,-cash, and not merely promises the committee- epilating had to q.ruler take with the that .U, the. loan proposal vyad not .carried within a. sonable- tjrmj, they (the cimtubuTors) would "et--their ;moticy-i -I c tended, ,Jt is therefore very, that tht*. tyan be put bpfoije the ratepayers, .Ritft as. little, delay Hs possibleNC. ■Mr H C. Robinson,- aA 'sbbcitor tor the trustees if the fund, explained the conditions' Kttache{l to; the tions. Mr Robinson! '-stated' that the conditions attached-allowed the.,C,oun- : eii six months in which' to 'take- a po . Should the loan 'be defeated-the money would, of course, be refunded to t o, subscribers; if the poll was earned tlm 1 money in hand would paid dver toe • "the Council. ; ,i * ’ Mr Robert 'Russell urged, upon -the I tCdiincil the necessity of qfcVoorably 1 Considering the -petition. .AH : Russo U stated that the traffic through - the pn - vatc property! from "Queen street- - to; /Chapel -street,'] whore ' it; was proposed • the new street! was increasing daily. 1 ‘ In fact, said Mr • Rns sell, “it is getting hevond us and, something will have''to be done ’ Cmitinuing, Mr RUsstslt said that, the. pi blic already looked upon the private thm. roughfare as. a public roadway,- and-if it were closed* as might be. essarv if the traffic td(ther*, thev would no doubt quickly appeal to the'Council to take over the land, and. make a- 'new: street. The . ,he maintained,- was absolutely- meecssai r The Mavor said. that he xx as ou-dilv in' accord with. the suggestion to "carry out the proposal iinmediatel>. ■ He wished to thank those pnblic-sprtit; cd citizens who had eome forward m 1 such a generous manner, and made'the Council’s work, in connection with-the proposal much easier. Tt,"i« c(ltinection with similar .proposals the it - Z ens concerned adopted this .public spirit, it would;result in many projects i of advantage to the borough being car- ! ried through; ; I cr. I‘efry supported the proposal Con-. tained in the petition. I’ Cr. O’Leary: -“I quite agree with I-the remarks of the 'Mayor and Cr. 'perry, and I have no dofibt that the polL will be carried.” . The Mayor asked the deputation t.o attend the public' meeting which it i would be necessary to call, and at * which the proposal would be explained,. 1 and to assist the Council in getting the poll carried. . ■ , ~ , Mr Robinson stated that '(hose who had contributed the £2500 in connection with the proposal had a fighting fund which was to be used in connection with the project. These gentlemen intended to fight for the proposal, and on fhe day the Goan proposal was to be voted upon they would bring voters to the poll,'"as they had a campaign mapped' dtiL; .The Council could raft, assured ‘tllhi 1 it would receive the solid supnort of 'tliii petitioners. - . The Mayor 'stated that if the poll were carried there would be ten chains of new street upon which the Council could levy fates. The Council lie remarked, could not claim betterment, from those who barl signed the peti-,, tion—the only one from whom , they,, could have claimed betterment rvas the owner of the land, and this gentleman had insisted that he be not,called upon to pav betterment. , •••-•. . Cr. Perry: “Those who vote against this proposal are, to my mind, fools. ' After thanking the Council the deputation withdrew.