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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 12

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BIRKENHEAD RATEPAYERS OPEN-AIR PROTEST MEETING An open-air protest meeting was held by Birkenhead Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association last evening in the Park at Highbury corner. Mr. E. C. Walton, president of the association, explained that the meeting had been called in the open as a protest aganst the refusal of the borough council to allow the association to use the council chambers for its meetings. In other boroughs the borough councils invited the co-operation of citizens’ associations. As an ex-mayor he fully realised the difficulties that local body men had to contend with, but he felt sure those difficulties would always be lessened if intelligent help was forthcoming from the citizens. Loan proposals were being considered by the council and the association would review these; he invited membership in the association and co-operation in promoting the progress of the borough. Mr. T. Walsh, secretary of the North Shore Expansion League, attended by invitation to explain the objects of the league, which, briefly defined, were to make the Nortth Shore of the Waitemata the finest residential and seaside resort in New Zealand. He urged development of the civic spirit to the utmost with a view to securing the maximum in communal facilities. The Birkenhead Band supplied musical items.