THE PASTORAL ASSOCIATION AND THE NEWMARKET RESERVE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 203, 25 August 1908, Page 3

THE PASTORAL ASSOCIATION AND THE NEWMARKET RESERVE.

(To-rte Editor.) Sir, —The above Association suggests that the Newmarket public reserve be leased to them for 40 years at a peppercorn rental, viz., nothing, for the purpose of erecting a building in which to hold their winter show. The site is the most central and valuable in the district. It is also the only possible place for the municipal buildings. In. the near future the borough will need an institute, library, etc., like unto the Leys Institute at Ponsonby, also a fire station and necessary municipal building, all up-to-date, for the borough is rapidly becoming an imporbant business centre. With the open- . inf of the Main Trunk railway, extension or workshops, and natural expansion, it is destined to 'be the centre of Auckland; so the question is a serious one to the ratepayers and residents. Aβ the Association's modesty is likely to handicap them in the choice of a site, allow mc to suggest the Domain, or the Victoria or the Albert Park. If they chose the latter the City council would probably roof it with glass, and construct ■a.ny other little improvements they might fancy.—l am, etc., g. Mcknight. Newmarket.