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PROGRESS SCHEME
AT TENNYSON
Landowner Causes
Hold-Up
Recently Pirie Town Council decided,
in relation to the citizens' plan to beau
tify an area in Tennyson bounded by
May and Rodda streets and Federation
road, to communicate with Mr. T. R.
Taylor, of Prospect, owner of the allot
ments concerned, asking him to either
make a gift to the corporation of the
land for beautification purposes or sell
it at a nominal figure.
On Monday evening it had before it
Mr. Taylor's reply. The owner said he
did not feel disposed to part with the
alloUnents.
Aid. L. H. Davis, who had been acting
as spokesman for the citizens' commit
tee, said he was bitterly disappointed
with the reply. The allotments at present
were an eyesore, and it would cost the
owner much money to place filling 011
them.
POWER OF COUNCIL
"Long before I entered this council,"
he said, "efforts were made to induce
the owner to have them filled, without
result. I cannot understand Mr. Taylor's
attitude. I do not wish to point a gun at
his head, but this council has power to
older that the blocks shall be fenced,
and that, with the necessary filling,
would be an expensive job for him.
"We have had an offer from a power
ful local organisation to provide the
filling and the equipment for beautifica
tion, and I can guarantee the necessary
manpower to do the job. What more do
we want?"
Aid. Connelly: The land.
Aid. Davis moved that the town clerk
should get in touch again with Mr. Tay
lor and ask him to review his decision
and place a price on the land.
"I thought that at least he would
have sold it to us," lie added, "but
evidently I was niistaken in Mr.
Taylor."
Cr. P. J. Clarke seconded the motion,
and it was adopted.
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