Work Started on Museum Approaches

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 148, 13 September 1927, Page 11

Work Started on Museum Approaches

A FINE LAY-OUT ROADS AND FOOTWAYS DURING the next few weeks £7,000 will be spent on laying out the approaches and access roads to the War Memorial Museum in the Auckland Domain. A few men started work yesterday, and are continuing to-day,, erecting sheds and collecting tools. To-morrow the number of men will be increased, and this increase will continue until about 60 men, drawn from the unemployed ranks, will be engaged. This morning THE SUN obtained permission, through the Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, and the city engineer, Mr. W. E. Bush, to publish the plan of the lay-out, which appears in this issue.! This lay-out has just been approved by a special committeee, the lay-out of the approaches having been held :n abeyance until it was actually required. ROADS SURROUND BUILDING Motor-car roads. 20 feet wide, will surround the museum, access being from the junction of Maunsell Boad and Titoki, Street at one end, and from the Domain road which runs round past the Winter Garden at the other. A third entrance will at some time he constructed to the junction of Hill and George Streets. Foot traffic will ascend to the museum by stepped paths from the Parnell end of the Domain Drive, over the grass and up steps in front of the museurg.—which faces the north —or by paths alongside the carriage ways. Some feet below the level of the museum will be the court of honour, later to contain the cenotaph. Between this court and the museum will be a road and footway, on the same level as the museum. In front of the court of honour, wide steps will lead down to another roadway, and below this again another flight of steps will lead to a stretch of grass, reaching down to the Domain Drive. On the plans, it is a particularly well designed lay-out, and in keeping with the impressiveness of the museum building.