WEST BAY ACCESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 13

WEST BAY ACCESS.

NOW A PUBLIC UTILITY.

GESTURE BY HARBOUR BOARD.

, 1 should like to be assured that this '« a public utility," said Mr. Hobb*-Jones at last night's meeting of the Devonport Borough Council, when the matter of approach to West Bay, a popular little bathing beach round the shoulder of Stanley Point \<a« diseueeed. Mr. Alex. Mac; v/or, who ia associated with Mr. Hobbs-Jones in tlie "Learn-tn-Swim" movement, aweured him that this heap was one of the beet nuraerip* of youthful swimmers in Devonport and that it wa« "a eijiht worth epping at high tide on a summer morning." Tlip matter .iri wbpn Mr. T!. A. Aldridgp reported that Mr. VV. B. Diirl*»w, nliniinui 11 of the Auckland Hiirbour Board, hnd in-pc •». d tlir hindinjr jetty i at West Riiv itiul lii.d narpnd mwlpr tho \ Kpciinl i-i i-i-i tin I i '»■-<•- nri'vnilin ' tn Imve J remitttMl tin. -mini Hcph-p foe pre- \ vionwlv |uii(l liv .1 iriviitc owner, provided tin , I'.-tm-■ !i I'n'iii-il n<«*ume«l responsibility for "•■ 'tim-ture. ! The bom' ' •.-••. Mr. A. T. Griffiths, l-ppo ,r, th Hip jetty w»-* at prpspiit iti ir"'"d -■ . -ml the council finally decided to a-t .i !..n f <»rniity wUh j the ri*({uiremente of the Harbour Board.