DOMAIN ALTERATIONS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 8

DOMAIN ALTERATIONS

PROPOSED' NEW ROAD

(To the Editor.)

In that useful official handbook, "How Our City Stands," issued by the City Council, appears, buried up amidst much other matter of import, a brief paragraph anent "Auckland' Domain" (page 31). This succinctly sets forth the-fact that the recently-formulated "comprehensive plan for the future development of the Domain" is "now completed and awaits presentation to the council." In that plan is retained all the roading features so strongly condemned by recently-expressed public opinion. That being so, before the council further proceeds with that plan it should drop altogether the proposed roading. ■ By the roadway nothing but a traffic route is intended through the Auckland Domain. Since the recent public condemnation of that roading scheme (and several other features of that plan) there has been much justifiable agitation against the traffic noises in the vicinity of the Public Hospital. The roading intended will certainly tend to aggravate that nuisance and create further distress to hospital inmates. For this reason alone, the idea of further roading within the Domain must be abandoned. GEO. GRAHAM.