HOBSON BAY.
I hasten to reassure Mr. D. R. Walker that my connection with the Hobson Bay movement is altogether outside of the New Zealand Land Settlement and Development Leagde and that the report appearing in the newspaper conveyed a wrong impression. However, I join issue with your correspondent as to the proposals of the Hobson Bay Preservation Committee, which he speaks of as, '''commercialising the area." This is an entirely wrong idea, and would be no more applicable to the suggestions made than if the same description were attached to the Auckland Domain.I came into the proposal at the stage when the Hobson Bay Preservation Society was advised that the'cost of reclamation" would be in the region of a quarter of a million; but if the figures given by 'the city engineer of nearly £400,000 stand, it appears to me impracticable to do anything' on such a large scale at this moment. The suggestion of making a salt water lake at Hobson Bay is, I fear, doomed, for the depth of the water would be insufficient for any practical pruposer,. K G. G-RIBBLE.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 262, 5 November 1930, Page 6
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