THE CITY'S FUTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 993, 9 June 1930, Page 8

THE CITY'S FUTURE

DEPUTATION SUPPORTING ALBERT STREET TRAMS AID TO WESTWARD GROWTH Why Aucklard should study and appreciate the benefits to be derived from the development of the west of Queen Street area as a wholesale and -etail shopping dis trict, in addition to acknow iedgino the relief of traffic pressure by having trams in Albert Street will be impressed on the Transport Board tomorrow morning by an influential deputation. I The deputation will be a public one I arranged by the West of Queen Street | Development Association. The board will be strongly urged to give effect to the proposals brought forward by its manager, Mr. A. E. Ford, to use Albert Street as a. tramway route. The question was considered by the association at a largely attended meeting. Mr. Robert A. Laid law, general manager of the Farmers’ Trading Coippany, Ltd., and Mr. A. J. Hutchinson, director of the association, will speak on behalf of the deputation. The deputation will be thoroughly representative of commercial interests. An important point in the arguments to be presented by the association in favour of the proposals raised by Mr. Ford as a transport expert is that trams in Albert Street will not benefit Albert Street alone, but will be simply a step in developing the whole of the west of Queen street area. Several firms and business houses which do not stand to gain any immediate benefit, and even some which would rather see trams excluded from Albert Street, are generously taking a wider view' of the future of Auckland by supporting the project.