Elm and Oak Roads Are Not Considered Slum Areas

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 2

Elm and Oak Roads Are Not Considered Slum Areas

HOUSING-SURVEY PROPOSALS' (Special to “Times.”) HASTINGS, Last Night. J a misapprehension appears to nav© •been created as the result of the report ;hefore the last meeting of the Hastings •Borough Council concerning the making iof a housing survey of the borough, fthe suggestion being that Elm and Oak roads are being considered as slum '.areas. They were nothing of the kind he said; every section in those streets was in strict accordance with the regulations and by-laws. The roadways themselves, however, were not of the width required under town-planning ideas, and it was because of this Fact tliat they could not bo considered with the remainder of t.he borough as conforming with the requirements of the Housing Survey Act. “It. is the intention of the counoil,” he said, “to undertake a survey of these roads with a view to bringing them into line with the remainder of tluj streets and roads in the borough. As a matter of fact, the majority of tho residences in these two streets are of very recent, construction, and the , streets conform with the requirements in every way with the one exception | of the actual width of the roadway it- . self ”