HARBOUR RECLAMATION
THREATENED BEAUTY.
RAILWAY PLANS FEARED.
HOBSON BAY PROSPECT. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday.
That no further reclamation for railway purposes nor other public works be allowed in Hobson Bay is the request of 200 petitioners whose petition was presented to the House of Representatives by Mr. J. S. Dickson (Parnell). The list is headed by the Mayor and Town Clerk of Auckland, Archbishop Averill, and Bishop Cleary, and is supported by the heads of other religious denominations, the president of the Auckland University College, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, the [Mayors of Newmarket, Mount Eden, Devonport, and Onehunga. Petitioners have been informed that the Railway Department proposes to construct railway works other than the through line already in Hobson Bay, and they ask that such work be prohibited, because the eastern Auckland suburbs are almost exclusively residential, substantially garden suburbs, and their chief attraction is the extraordinary natural beauty of the prospect over the Waitemata and Hauraki Gulf. Two more paragraphs comment on the scenic value of the prospect over Hobson Bay, which petitioners fear may be disfigured both from land and sea, as further reclamation will tend to the creation of an industrial area in front of the attractive suburbs.
"For many years," they state, "by reclamation and public works the beautiful sea front of Auckland has been gradually altered in character and spoiled in appearance, and it is desirable that further operations of this character should be abandoned. The Government, by passing the Town Planning Act, have expressly recognised the wisdom and public duty of preserving objects of natural beauty, and of separating industrial from residential areas. The construction of such works will constitute a V i°iu* lon fundamental principles of the Town Planning Act, because of the disfigurement of the waterfront and of S! 18 in . t i r^ rence the ameniB* 05 the neighbourhood/*
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1928, Page 10
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312HARBOUR RECLAMATION Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1928, Page 10
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