PROTEST TO RAILWAYS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 517, 21 November 1928, Page 16

PROTEST TO RAILWAYS

HOARDINGS UNPOPULAR IN MOUNT ALBERT The Mount Albert Borough Council does not welcome the proposal of the Railway Department to erect four hoardings on the department’s property opposite the Mount Albert tram terminus. The council found last evening that it could not prevent the department carrying out the work on its own property, but councillors took the chance to condemn the increase in hoardings. “We are against hoardings on principle,” said the Mayor, Mr. L. E. Rhodes, who added that he had informed the department that the council would raise objections. Cr. J. Langley thought that it was dangerous to build hoardings near the Gladstone Road crossing, as the department proposed. “We’ve got enough death-traps already,” he said. Cr. P. Floyd added his objection and Cr. J. Buckley moved that the department should be requested to keep the area free from hoardings. The Mayor suggested that the department should be asked to place the hoardings further back, at least, and Cr. W. Russell’s recommendation that the erection of the hoardings should be delayed until the Gladstone Road overhead bridge is built was added to the motion. The objections are to be sent to the department. In its letter to the council notifying that erection of the hoardings would be carried out, the department described its hoardings “high-class” structures.