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APPENDIX K. Agreement made the day of 1907 between the Mayor Councillors and Citizens of the City of Wellington hereinafter termed "the Corporation" of the one part and Thomas Kennedy Macdonald of the City of Wellington in the Colony of New Zealand of the other part. Whereas the Corporation is desirous of widening and altering the approach to the Wellington Terrace from Woodward Street And whereas the said Thomas Kennedy Macdonald is the owner of the land on the northen corner of Woodward Street and Wellington Terrace And whereas the Corporation has requested the said Thomas Kennedy Macdonald to transfer to it for the purposes of a public street the land coloured red on the plan annexed hereto which said Thomas Kennedy Macdonald has agreed to do on consideration of the agreement on the part of the Corporation to erect on the remainder of his land a concrete wall in manner hereinafter provided Now this agreement witnesseth as follows 1. The said Thomas Kennedy Macdonald agrees to vest in the Corporation for the purposes of a public street the land coloured red on the plan annexed hereto. 2. If and when the said Thomas Kennedy Macdonald shall so vest the said land coloured red in the Corporation the Corporation shall forthwith construct on the remainder of the land vested in the said Thomas Kennedy Macdonald on the site indicated on the plan annexed hereto a concrete wall well and substantially constructed according to the plan thereof shown on the said plan annexed hereto. 3. The said wall when constructed shall at all times be maintained and repaired by the said Thomas Kennedy Macdonald his heirs administrators and assigns and the Corporation shall be under no liability in respect of the said wall. In witness whereof these presents have been executed by or on behalf of the parties hereto the day and year before written. The common seal of the Mayor Councillors and Citizens of\ the City of Wellington was hereto affixed at the offices | of and pursuant to a resolution of the City Council j in the presence of — J , Mayor. , Councillor. , Town Clerk. Signed by the above-named Thomas Kennedy Macdonald in i in the presence of— J

APPENDIX L. Town Hall, Wellington, N.Z., sth September, 1907. Dear Sir, — Re Regrading Woodward Street. The estimated cost of a wall as required by His Worship the Mayor in Woodward Street, and as necessary for the proposed alteration of level, is £234 13s. This is for the full length of the wall in Woodward Street and Wellington Terrace along private property. Yours faithfully, W. H. Morton, The City Solicitor. City Engineer.

* APPENDIX M. Town Hall, Wellington, N.Z., 4th September, 1908. Re Woodward Street. Dear Sir, — . I have the honour to forward you herewith, for the Chairman of the Lands Committee, the copy of the evidence given by me before the said Committee, duly signed and corrected in red With regard to the question of His Worship the Mayor concerning an estimate of the cost of building a wall for about £250, as contained in the third last paragraph of the evidence : I find that His Worship was correct, and'that another estimate was given to the City Solicitor on the sth September 1907, which I had forgotten. I forward herewith copy of the letter referred to (see Appendix L). Yours faithfully, ' W. H. Morton, City Engineer. The Clerk of the Lands Committee, House of Representatives, N.Z. Parliament.