HANDS OFF MOUNT HOBSON!

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 6

HANDS OFF MOUNT HOBSON!

Allow me as a resident in the of Mount Hobson to thank you for etathw your objection to the proposal to make t£ Mount Hobson Reserve a dumping ground for motor cars. Many of the residents W expressed to me their profound objection to the proposal, and that objection has not been more loudly voiced because very few thought there was any real danger of the City Council proceeding with the scheme, or of Parliament giving its sanction to it. The objection of the residents is based upon the nuisance and danter to health of such a camp in a residential neighbourhood; but there is another and mote serious objection which concerns the whole community. The City Council is trustee of public reserves held for the citizens as a whole, and to utilise any part of those reserves for the use of a favoured section to the exclusion of those who do not own motor ears, is a gross perversion of trust. Mount Hobson Reserve is a gem of beauty; the view from it is one of the most beautiful panoramas i»f glorious scenery to be found anywhere, and to mar that reserve with the debris of camping motorists would be a piece of vandalism that could not be tolerated, .and if the scheme i» proceeded with it must be strenuously resisted. GEORGE MacMURRAY.