GREAT SOUTH ROAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1012, 1 July 1930, Page 16

GREAT SOUTH ROAD

BEAUTIFYING SOCIETY’S PROPOSALS PLANTING TREES AND ROSES A meeting of the Great South Road Beautifying Council was held in the Otahuliu Council Chambers last evening. Mr. F. H. Leonard presided. The chairman reported that satisfactory arrangements could not be arrived at between Messrs. Rowe Bros, and the One Tree Hill Borough Council, as the former would not agree to indemnify the council against possible accidents occurring in connection with the rockery surrounding the service station. He said the One Tree Hili Council proposed to erect a lamp to throw a beam of light on the kerb. It was decided to ask the One Tree Hill Borough Council and the Ellerslie Town Board to confer with the Auckland Automobile Association, and submit recommendations to the council for dealing with the control of traffic on this corner. It was decided that a further belt of roses be planted in suitable localities along the Great South Road. It was agreed again to ask the Railway Department to remove the hoarding at the northern approach to Penrose overhead bridge, as the council considered it to be a danger to traffic travelling both north and south. It was decided to ask the Westfield Freezing Company to carry out a treeplanting campaign on its property on the approaches to the Westfield overhead bridge. The Auckland Rotary Club is to be asked to appoint two delegates to the Messrs. Hutchinson, Hay, Waters and Leonard were appointed as a subcommittee to go over the Great South Road, as far south as Papakura, and to report on the work carried out: also to recommend areas for future planting. The action of the Otahuhu Borough Council in refusing to grant a permit for the erection of fish-curing works on the banks of the Tamaki River was approved. The Otahuhu Borough Council, Papatoetoe, Manurewa and Papakura Town Boards, One Tree Hill Borough Council, and the Manukau County Council are to be asked to make strong representation that the saleyards at Westfield be moved farther south, instead of urging the necessity of prov iding a stock route to the present site.