WORK IN PROSPECT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 105, 6 May 1929, Page 10

WORK IN PROSPECT.

J TWO IMPORTANT POLLS. TRANSPORT BOARD'S PROPOSALS. PLAYING AREAS AT MT. ALBERT. Ratepayers of the city and Mount Albert will have important loan proposals placed before them at polls to be held on Wednesday. The city poll will involve the sum of £526,000, which the Auckland Transport Board desires to I spend on the purchase of new rolling 1 stock, the extension of tramway tracks, the laying down of a tramway loop at the new Auckland railway station, a siding in Stanley Street, the duplication of the Oneliunga track, and improvements and enlargements to the tramway workshops. The proposed extensions are Point Chevalier, Dominion Road, Remuera Road, Mt. Eden Road, Edendale Road and Richmond Road. The chairman, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, will address a meeting at Mount Roskill this evening, when he will explain the Transport Board's loan proposals in detail. Three loan proposals will be submitted to the Mount Albert ratepayers, the total amount involved being £18.500. If the full amount is authorised, it is proposed to spend £8500 on the laying out and development of the Morningside Reserve, £1500 011 the development of the Mount Albert Domain, and £8500 011 improvements at Gribblehirst Park. The work proposed would give the borough fine playing areas, of which it is in need. Improvements at the Morn•ngside Reserve would result in th<> creation of three football fields, and tennis and basketball courts, together with a pavilion. It is proposed to form two football grounds at Gribblchurst Park, >n Edendale Road, and if the expenditure is authorised a children's play area will also be provided. A driveway round the none of Mount Albert is contemplated. This would give access to a newlvaequired area of ten acres in the scoria pit, previously worked by the Govern- ( ment, and. now under the administration ] of the Domain Board. It is hoped to f tar-seal the driveway, which would be ] popular, among sightseers by reafion of J >

tlie uncommonly wide panoramic views obtainable from the mountainside. Football and cricket clubs in the Mount Albert borough have to go outside their own district to find playing grounds, but this would be altered if the proposed works were carried out. Should the loans be carried the work will be put in hand this winter to relieve unemployment. j The Mount Albert poll and the TransI port Board poll will be taken in the same | booths next Wednesday.