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GRAIN SHED >
WATER-STREET SITE
Attitude of Wheat Board
Utter to city council
Correspondence was tabled at last
night's meeting of the. city Council
with reference to the removal of the
grain shed from Water-street. The
manager of the State Wheat Board
(Mr, W. Btnns) advised that the
Board felt under some difficulty in
that it was noted no provision was
suggested in the resolution adopted at
a public meeting for meeting the flnan-
cial . obligation- that such a proposal
as the removal of the site would en
tail. Until cither the Council, or those
who had intimated their desire for
such action had submitted a scheme
that would be acceptable, without dis
location or imposing an additional
financial burden upon the wheatgrow-
ers— the real people concerned— the
Board did not feel justified in enter
taining the idea of destroying several
thousand pounds worth of structure,
which still remained intact, and as an
outcome of which any supposed bene
fit would be at least very problemati
cal.
Mr. Binns drew attention to the fact
that when a suitable site was sought
some 16 years ago the Railway De
partment Informed the Board that
there was no site so conveniently situ
ated, both for the "Department and for
the Board's operations, as the one now
occupied. The distribution ot seed
wheat necessitated some centralisation
in order to give ready execution of
orders, and any removal from the
present location would involve very
drastic changes, which might not op
erate cither to the interests of wheat-
growers, taking the whole of the
wheatgrowlng area into consideration,
or the prosperity of Toowoomba, which,
ho was sure, the Council would be
quick to recognise, depended not in
considerably on facilitating the ex
pansion and the succccssful marketing
of wheat produced in the surrounding
districts,
Alderman Paterson said there was
nothing the Council could do other
than receive the communication.
Alderman Robinson referred to the
largely attended public meeting at
which protests were lodged against the
Board re-bulldlng the shed on its pres
ent site. He urged that every considera
tion should be given to residents, who
had to endure all sorts of pests, more
especially weevils from the shed. There
were about 17 houses in Water-street,
and the ratepayers paid annually £116
in rates, but the Council received no
thing from the Wheat Board. Wheat-
growing was in its infancy on the
Downs, and it might be wise for the
Board to build a much larger and up-
to-date shed in another locality.
Alderman -Buchanan said the wheat,
shed was responsible for many pests.
People living in the locality had to
store the food in tins in order to keep
it free from weevils. It was not fair
that those people should be penalised.
In his opinion the shed should be re
moved to another area.
Alderman Turnbull said that the
whole of the foundations in the shed
were intact, and they could be utilised
elsewhere in Toowoomba. Residents did
not expect, when the shed was built;
that they would have to put up with
many kinds of pests, as well as have
unfortunate human beings camping
under the shed. A more suitable local
ity for the shed was the Harristown
railway station or the Maltlrigs.
The Mayor: There are three phases
In connection with the question-
either the Wheat Board, the State, or
City council has to finance the project.
We cannot finance it.
Aid. Griffiths: If the Board rc-erects
the shed has the Council any jurisdic
tion over it to keep pests down?
The Mayor': Unfortunately they were
never declared unhealthy pests. They
may be a nuisance.
Aid. Griffiths: The remedy seems to-
be not so much the removal of the
nhed as to make the Wheat Board
abate the nuisances. We are tackling
the problem at the wrong end.
At Aid. TurnbuU's request, supported
by Aid. Buchanan, it was decided that
the Ccuncll meet the Wheat Board
and discuss the question with them.
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