EVANS BAY FACILITIES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 8

EVANS BAY FACILITIES

(To the Editor.)

Sir —As a member of the Evans Bay Yacht Club, might I suggest that now-is the time for the City Council and the Harbour Board to carry on any proposed improvements affecting us. We are soon to start dismantling for the winter, so that our activities would not necessarily be much of.a hindrance. Also, the work entailed would give employment to many who are unemployed. I have been served notice to quit or shift my boatshed in a short time, and I do not feel like doing it if nothing is going to be done for years. Boatsheds to be. built to suit the authorities make the1 sport too expensive for the average working man. . , "If the Harbour Board would only erect a number of ■ sheds in concrete, with skidways like our more fortunate fellow-sports-men have at Oriental parade, we would only be too pleased to rent them annually or lease. The sheds could be built well out, so that filling could be dumped behind them, thus making,a fine wide promenade, similar to Oriental Bay. Evans Bay is" coming on in leaps and bounds, but it is sadly handicapped by the want of decent yachting and swimming facilities; also a. very narrow, dangerous road.—l am, etc.,

STEPHEN EEYNOLDS,

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l should like to call the attention of the Traffic Department to the practice of speeding on the Evans Bay road. On Friday last I was watching a gang of the City Council Waterworks Department laying on the water supply to a section where a new house is evidently being erected. To find the main they had to cut into the bitumen about five feet. While the work was in progress our attention was drawn to the screeching of rubber tires on bitumen. This was from a big sedan car coming from tho direction of the slip at a breakneck speed. It came around the bend with a screech and narrowly missed one of the council men; then it continued on toward Kilbirnie Park at a mad pace. There was a meeting of school children for their swimming sports at. the Hataitai Private Club, and if any child had decided to cross the road while this maniac was approaching the child would not have had a chance. If any of the council men see this letter, who were there, I would like them to corroborate this letter. It is to be hoped that the Traffic Department can detail a patrolman to watch this road. Personally, after this incident, I think council men should be privileged to prosecute such an offence. The roadman, or anyone employed on road work, takes a greater risk than the average layman realises.— I am, etc., ' ALFRED BARTON.