RESERVES FOR MOUNT ALBERT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 8

RESERVES FOR MOUNT ALBERT

THE gift to the Mount Albert Council of the area known as the Cabbage Tree Swamp for use as a recreation reserve was generous enough to stir the council to action in providing playgrounds for its large population. For years, despite the continuous prompting of the ratepayers, the council had refused to awaken to a realisation of needs and possibilities in this important matter. Now there is no excuse for further dilatoriness.

The gift was one that could not possibly be refused, and the council last night decided to accept it and to call for competitive designs for the laying-out of the area, which is already being drained, and in March next the ratepayers will be asked to approve the raising of a loan to purchase certain lands adjoining that which they have been made a gift of, and which will complete an area of 14 acres to be used as a recreation reserve.

There is little doubt that the ratepayers will vote for the purchase pf this additional land and thus set the seal of their approval on the gift, and that they will also approve of the expenditure of a sum of money for developing the loßg-neg-lected Morningside Reserve and tlie Mount Albert Reserve, for which authority was granted recently by the Government. Mt. Albert will then possess facilities for outdoor recreation which will be of inestimable value to the district and its people.