MOTUIHI ISLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 310, 31 December 1940, Page 6

MOTUIHI ISLAND.

T wish to enter an emphatic protest n the closing of Motnilii Island to tho puDlie. It was a long uphill fight l>y Mr. Baildon -which got right of way to the inland, resulting in the land being vested in the City Council as a recreational reserve. Like a boy whittling a stick, no are our rights being taken from us little by little. We all know there is a war on, but we treasure this right gained us. First. Rangitoto w out of hounds, now Motuihi,' and it may I>e the fame will occur of Waiheke and Kawau Island*. But rarely the remedy ie to concede a point to the military, fence off a spot, nnd let the public have the rc«t. It was three hundred years ago that an English gentleman in the Howe of Lord* mentioned "That the power of the Crown has increased. i« increasing, and must be reduced," and it is only by protesting that one can win the bnttle within for our liberties that certain gentlemen at Wellington take of eo little account. PRO BONO PUBMOO. [The island has been closed for defence reasons and it i* not likely that it will be reopened during the war.—Ed.]