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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1063, 29 August 1930, Page 14

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APPLICATION TO BUILD BRICKWORKS REQUEST TO COUNCIL The growth of Avondale and New Lynn as industrial areas was emphasised at last evening’s City Council meeting, when application was made for permission to erect a building for manufacture of earthenware pipes, bricks and tiles on an area of about 22 acres at the corner of Taylor and Matai Streets. Avondale South. The City Engineer, Mr. J. Tyler, recommended that the application be declined. While the bulk of the adjacent area was still undeveloped, there were within a radius of half, a mile 131 dwellings and 227 legally subdivided residential building lots vacant. Although recognising the suitability of the soil for burnt clay products, ho was of the opinion that expansion of the industry should be a gradual process from a centre and that for the present heavy industries should be limited to an area of 103 acres, containing now only 15 dwellings and 37 vacant building lots. The property in question was not within this area. The Town-planning Committee will make a report..

Another application sought permission to erect shops on 11 sections fronting the southern alignment of Surrey Crescent, Grey Lynn. The City Engineer recommended the application be granted in respect of four lots, being those immediately westward of the Auckland Steam Laundry, but that those lots east of the Grey Lynn School should for the present be reserved for residential purposes. In view of the tendency for light industries to seek accommodation on Surrey Crescent, he thought that the council might reasonably set aside both frontages of this street from Richmond Avenue junction to Browning Street as a business area, wherein shops might be erected without consent, and light and domestic industries only with the special consent of the council. This application was also referred to the Town-planning Committee.