THE CENTENNIAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 116, 19 May 1939, Page 11

THE CENTENNIAL

MANY PROPOSALS. PROVINCIAL MEMORIALS. WORK WEXX ADVANCED. "The Auckland Province is well advanced in its arrangements, and I am confident that it will commemorate the attainment of its hundredth birthday in the manner in which it is striving, and appropriate to an historical occasion," said the Mayor of Auckland, Six Ernest Davis, to-day. Sir Ernest said that the centennial committees had a dual re«|>onsibility, as they were answerable for memorials as well as celebrations, and the memorial question was not an easy one to handle. The Anckland Provincial Centennial Council had now dealt with a large number of memorial applications. Many of them were similar in character, such as provision of parks, improvements to parks. reserves and playing areas, women's rest rooms and libraries, and the point that emerged from that was that the people of the province were consciously uniting in ideals to provide memorials expiessing a tribute to the past, ami demonstrating faith in the future. Many Proposals Approved. A review of the work transacted to date by the Auckland Provincial Centennial Council shows that many proposals have been approved. but in some instances further steps are necessary before finality is reached. The major proposals still under consideration are tile beautifying of the main highway between Auckland and Kotorua. and Auckland's choice between a park iu the Waitakere Ranges, a Karitane home and a physical culture centre.

Pro|ioscils which have been approved in the province include;—

Siangoniii.-—A park and sports ground, a. general sports ground at Awanui. public library and ladies' lest room, and public .swim in iny baths at Kaitaia to cost Whangaroa.—Recreation ground to cost JCI2OO. Bay of Islands County.—Bathing pavilion at Kerikeri to cost £800, extension of Kaikohe Hall and library to cost £1550, and civic centre at Russell to cost £2000. Whanaarei Borough.—Motor camp to cost £3150. new playing fields to cost £1400, and improvements at Kensington Park to cost £150. Onerahi Town District.—lmprovements to area of old Maori pa to cost .£IOO. Whangarei I'ounty.,,— Plantirig of domains and beaches with trees to cost £825. Dargaville.—(Children's playing area to cost £1450, motor camp to cost £325. Otamatea County.—Reconstruction of public halls, improvements to domains and library at Maungaturoto to cost £3375. Approval has also been given to the publication of a book embracing the history of the Bay of Islands, to be edited by the Rev. M. A. Wybert, vicar of Waimate North, and to the erection of a grandstand at Waimate North showgrounds at an estimated cost of £1400. Recommendations approved i.n the Auckland area include: — Auckland. —Centennial memorial to pioneer mother* and erection of a community centre, to ctwt £25,000. Mount Eden.—Plunket rooms on lanrl adjoining Potter's Park, to cost £1000, and acquisition of land for development as a children's plavground to cost £2500. New Lvnn.—lmprovements to domain, to cost £2770. In South Auckland. In the areas south of the city of Auckland recommendations approved iuclnde: — Makotii.—Concrete seawall and planting of seafront with trees, at cost of £1750. I'ukekolie. —Gymnasium at Bledisloe Park, to cost £3500. Pa|wikura. —Ladies' rest room and children's playground, to cost £900. Tuakau. —Children's playground, to cost £t>7o. Ngaruawahia.—Plunket rooms and ladies' rest room, to cost £650. Piako County.—Tree planting in grounds of halls in county, to cost £100. Paeroa. —Library building, to cost £1400. Waihi.—lmprovements of reserve and tree planting, to cost £205. Rotorua. —Rebuilding of meeting house and laying out portion of Kuirau Domain as a Centennial Park, to cost £750t>. Tauranga.—Development of recreation grounds, to cost £1875. Matamata. —Swimming baths and tree planting, to cost £2400. Ptitarurn. —Centennial Park, to cost £650. Whakatane.—Centennial Park, to cost £1000. Mount Maunganui.—Ladies' rest room and recreation ground improvements, to cost £1125. Opotiki. —Recreation ground and improvements, to cost £800. NO AGREEMENT REACHED. DAIRY WORKERS' DISPUTE. (By Telegraph.—rress Association.) W ELL I N'GTON, Thursday. After deliberating for three days the parties in the Dominion dairy factory workers'dispute failed to reach an agreement. Th« dispute was adjourned until July 3. ' The only measure of agreement related to retrospective pay, the employers agreeing that the new award >hou?d date from the beginning of the dairv season.