GROWTH OF AUCKLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 101, 20 July 1927, Page 10

GROWTH OF AUCKLAND

NEARBY SUBURBS NEGLECTED ADVANTAGES NOT USED Every year the city of Auckland stretches out its suburbs further and further. Where once were farmhouses and green fields, there are now being built prosperous suburbs. The tendency is always toward the unused open spaces, and it is automatically thought that the suburbs already encompassed are completely built on. This, however, is not always the case. Often, sections are available close at hand, but the public has been told that they must go further afield to get building land, and the public interest has been centred on the outer suburbs. THE SUN’S man was of this opinion, and went out on a recent afternoon to Investigate. The photograph shown below was secured at a suburb not three sections out from Queen Street, with a delightful view and all the conveniences one usually requires in a modern suburb. The usual explanation given is that land values are too high, but inquiry revealed that prices are no dearer than at suburbs, four, five and six sections out from town. Transport, too, is satisfactory, as the district is served by tram and bus. The only explanation* (one can come to is that the advantages of this particular suburb are unknown, whereas the advantages of suburbs further out have been made more familiar. That the suburb under review is not the only one so placed is revealed by a cursory glance over a map of the Auckland district New districts are springing into being at Papatoetoe New Lynn and Tamaki, but there arp •*till places quite close to the city not vet completely built on. Practically all the districts over the harbour could be included in this category, also Point Chevalier and Grey Lynn on one side. and Victoria Avenue. Remuera. on the other sido When people begin to see that possibilities are still available of living within easy reach of the city these districts will be rushed but meantime the opportunity is there for anyone