HOBSON BAY BLOT?

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 282, 29 November 1927, Page 8

HOBSON BAY BLOT?

RUMOURED ERG|jIE SHEDS, FACING OUO( SUBURB. . /-.ii BAY RESIDENTS PERTCBBED. X "It is obviously the duty 0 f the nl - eminent to make a statement hefom of the Orakei sections are put upjJ auction, said a Hobson Bar a "Star" reporter this morning. voicing the anxiety of local concerning what is going to be dWSj the triangle that will be formedV£ railway embankment and the junctk-2 the •waterfront road that is Orakei. Short connecting emhaal have been thrown across from iSSt rroad, making the junction into a Art.? triangle, and the residents round fear that this foreshadows clamation. Apparently there shown on the railway plans as tot 2" ultimate use of this area, but then ■. ' rumour that it will be fined in tually used as a site for engine -*nl "And," said the pro*"sting resident. *i._ can imagine what that will umwl S triangle is right in the middle of bay, between Point Resolution Orakei Point. The prevailing wind w from the south-west, and that will ana" that the smoke and soot will be canM~' right over the sections that lie oa b" west side of Orakei Point. Then the north-east wind blows Remm >a get the benefit.

"Orakei, we are told, is to be a suburb, but what sort of a garden qM, will it be with an engine depot twkt there in the middle of the bay! Xo would wish to embarrass the Goiq. ment, but common honesty they should say what they an guv f do with that triangle, before they eife-' a single section to the public. If a frigate firm was cutting up an estate Eke* Orakei. and had at the back of its the building of engine sheds in a position as the triangle of which'l fcnt spoken, there can be no doubt as to how such an action would be characterise!. I don't see that the Government is relieved from the same obligation to '&-* close its intentions."

, N Inquiries made in Auckland fc «et anything definite as to what is to happen to the triangle. Apparently it does not appear on any of the g{ the present works that are being camel out. It is understood that the residents round the bay intend to approach tW Government and get a definite stateoeit as to what the Railway Department intend doing with the site.