AN OLD AUCKLAND LANDMARK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 233, 29 September 1908, Page 5

AN OLD AUCKLAND LANDMARK.

» . Mr. F. H. Morton puts in the following plea on behalf of one of the most picturesque oltt landmarks in our city. "Those of your readers who remember the Auckland of fifteen or twenty years ago, cannot without regret, 1 am sure, see. the old landmarks disappearing one by one. Many of them have been swept away in the flowing tide of progress, but there i.. one, the father of all old Auckland landmarks, which civic patriotism should surely protect and keep intact. I mean the "Old Windmill" on the rise of Symonds-street. Those who remember the majestic sweep cf its sai-s >n every breeze, seen from far and near, or the complete picture it made at rest, cannot but lament the utterly miserable and dilapidated appearance it now presents —shorn of every sail, and vanes _ breaking from the pilot windwheel. It was promised when the sails were removed that they would be refitted with new slats; that was three or four years ago, and still the denuded tower rears itself in silent protest. Is it the cost of sails which prevents their restoration ? If so, lam certain the amount could be raised in a day or two, so dear is the old mill and its associations to hundreds of citizens who remember it from childhood. Now that the matter is, through your courtesy, given greater publicity, it remains to be 3_en what steps the well known civic pride of Auckland's councillors and citizens will urge them to take toward the restoration of their oldest, most enduring, and most picturesque of all former landmarks —the Old Windmill."