TO SAVE HOBSON BAY
A PETITION bearing 200 signatures and carrying with it the approval of the majority of Aucklanders has been presented to Parliament. It is a protest against the projected disfigurement of Hobson Bay in the guise of railway and industrial development. Already Auckland’s waterfront has suffered grievously from vandal hands, and it is indeed time that our legislators should know the indignation that is felt against those who would insensately despoil our city of its natural beauty. If the scheme now under consideration is put into execution the knell will be sounded for a delightful residential area. Smoke and soot will be belched across pleasant slopes, and the architectural abominations that may follow, in the name of progress, can safely be left to the imagination. It has been pointed out by the petitioners that the principles of the Town Planning Act, which is definitely against the industrialisation of residential areas, are in danger of being flagrantly violated. It is to be hoped that the Railways Committee, to whom the petition has been referred, is fully seized of the weight of public sentiment behind this formal protest and that Auckland members will, at the right moment, test their powers of vitriolic oratory in the cause of a City Beautiful.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 465, 21 September 1928, Page 8
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211TO SAVE HOBSON BAY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 465, 21 September 1928, Page 8
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