RAILWAY HOARDINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 August 1926, Page 8

RAILWAY HOARDINGS.

«AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE."

PROTEST BY MT. EDEN COUNCIL

"Is the Government out to protect life or destroy it?" asked Councillor J. Smith at a meeting of the Mount Eden Borough Council last evening. He said that the Government could put up hoardings on its own property at the Mount Eden railway station, but they should protest against hoardings being placed on the side of the footpath near the Mount Eden railway bridge. He moved that the Government should be requested to remove them within seven days. (Laughter.) A Councillor (sympathetically): That's the Btuff. Cγ. Smith: And if necessary legal advice be taken, and if the Government won't remove them that our engineer be instructed to do bo. A Councillor: Hear, hear —by dynamite. (Laughter.) Cr. Smith: The hoardings are blocking the view and are a positive danger. 1 Councillors: Hear, hear. Cr. Smith: The best thing would be to have a footpath on the eastern side of the bridge. In seconding the motion, Cr. G. L. Taylor said that the hoardings were very dangerous. The traffic inspector eaid that they were a menace to traffic, and might be the cause of a serious accident. "I regard it as scandalous the way that the Government talks about townplanning, and puts hoardings in a place like that," said Cr. D. C. Fraser. "Yet they ask us to lay out a borough. Down in Khyber Paes they have put up 'tuppeny ha'-penny' hoardings that are an absolute disgrace." The motion was carried, although [ when it is sent forward it will probably be tempered to the extent of pointing out that the hoardings constitute a daniger, and should be removed.