REMUERA'S REQUIREMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1915, Page 4

REMUERA'S REQUIREMENTS.

BIG STREET ni--ifaV ; crrr engineer's ; ; The City Engineer (Mr. W. £ ; Biif'; has prepared a report dealing needs of the Remuera district." .£*! ?V " brick area question required Fo $i/*V : . proached with great care, lie at**NW ; : owing to the fact that the districttil. almost entirely a residential one. ',-i* to the streets, they presented ;» : - W t fJ';:: problem, needing time, mrfneyj and -"_}£'-. to meet successfully.. He there were some CD miles of streets, U be dealt with. Owing to the fact thW the late Road Board had declined -t» avail itself of the Government's OJW;: when the other districts were being ?«* veyed, no work of this nature, had J**§i. done; but the matter was one of invpM* tance, and he recommended that ■*•. attempt be made to get the -I*nds'M4 Survey Department to undertake ,'" work at once. The engineer stated the* the question of providing for the g«fco away of storm water in the .st ree i* would have to be dealt with, and wpulS entail large expenditure. Touching upon the street lighting question, «• "announced his intention of making* night examination of the district.-;•■;. enable him to judge of the number,- 0 * additional lamps required. The qnc*V tion of parks and open spaces-ih ?*ai* -era he had not yet been able to. «f* sider, but the district possessed gj*** natural beauty, enhanced by the ffW 1 ! disposition of its homes and the tist'OT. laying-out -of private grounds. MflS"-» Hobson, with its green slopes, : source of delight to the eye, and offer** , great scope for effective landscapetreM* ment. / .»-.,,_ Mr. Bush concludes by cxprosßUig'.M* opinion that Remuera only rieVetds,"■ __• \- carrying ou: of a carefully cbusidst** i and well executed scheme of 3tr*Sl» r _J ' provement and tree planting* wttjfc •"•' conservation of its present grctfc beauties, tq enable it. to, ra.nk «a ejsW *J the mos,t d.osirabje stibttriiji-.'-Bi .•)•;■ Southern, v 1;-