WORK IN AUCKLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 6

WORK IN AUCKLAND.

All those who keep on saying that there is no work for the unemployed can have very little imagination, for there is so much work waiting to be done that we can absorb all our unemployed. We know that flats for working people are wanted, and small homes. In a city of the size of Auckland it is rather a. disgrace that we have no public bnildinga for shows or exhibition purposes. There is plenty of land where Luna Park was formerly which would be a good site, and land round should be laid out as a park. This would be quite necessary as a setting for a large, commodious building to be used for shows and exhibitions. It is also time that we should make our residential and suburban areas more attractive. The long streets with small suburban houses on each side are intensively ugly. Now is the time to have extensive tree planting in the streets of native and flowering trees. Everywhere in Europe you see drab streets made beautiful with flowering trees. We were promised by our City Council that St. John's Lake should be allowed to fill up again, and that is an ideal place for botanical gardens. Auckland is growing fast, and we must look ahead. We have no Botanical gardens. Wβ need a park for our native flora collected from all parts of New Zealand. Later on we shall have to turn our attention to reclamation of land in the Manukau and at Devonport. It is nonsense to say it cannot be done. What Mussolini has done round Koine we can take a lesson from here. I know many objections will be raised to any attempt to make our city beautiful, as unpractical, because there is no direct return. Well, we have got to learn that we must do many improvements which perhaps at the moment do not make returns, but will do so in the distant future. EUBY E. WATSON.