DISASTROUS QUARRIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 255, 18 January 1928, Page 6

DISASTROUS QUARRIES

DESTRUCTION OF CONES TOWN PLANNERS INVESTIGATE Intent on saving the city’s volcanic cones which have not reached the hopeless stage of destruction, a committee of the Town Planning Association has been making investigations. “Some are too far gone,” said a member of the committee yesterday. “Two of the Kings have been so drastically quarried that they are in an impossible condition and Little Rangitoto near Remuera, is gone altogether. On this mount the quarry should be worked to a plan.”

The committee will probably recommend that the quarrying should be stepped on those cones which are not too badly defaced, and that it should be continued on the hopeless ones. Mount Albert, the committee considers, can be saved, especially as the Railway Department has indicated its intention to cease quarrying there, and Mount Wellington is also a hopeful cone.

Three organisations, the National Council of Women, the New Zealand Tourist League, and the Auckland Advertising Club have passed resolutions against . the destruction of the vo.canic hills.

The committee of the Town Planning Association is Messrs. G. M. Fowlds, convenor, M. McArthur, F. E. Powell, V. E. Blake, Preston Chambers, and Professor Knight. It will make suggestions for the preservation of as many as possible of the cones and indicate wTiere the alternative supply of metal can be obtained.