TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1914, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

STREET NOMENCLATURE CONFUSION IN AUCKLAND. (BT TELIGRAPH.— SPECIAL TO THE POST.) AUCKLAND, This Day. One of the most striking examples of tho confusion that is associated with the multiplicity of local bodies in Auckland, and which will require rectification as the Gieater Auckland scheme is carried into effect is to be found in the frequent repetitions in nomenclature. Instances of the careless and happy-go-lucky system of naming Auckland streets are amazing. The extent to which confusion must often be caussct by these repetitions in tho work of postal officials, cab. and express drivers, and others, may bo imagined by anyone who takes the trouble to glance thiough the list of streets given in the directory. The list of streets in what may be termed the "Greater Auckland" area shows that there are upwards of one hundred cases of names which are used more than once in the naming of streets, roads, avenues, terraces, crescents, etc. There are no fewer than sixty cases in which the same names are used twice, and over thirty instances in which they occur three times. "Argyle," "Eden," "Gladstone," and "Salisbury" are used four times, "Al* bert," "Prospect," "Russell," and "Selwyn" five times, "Richmond" and "Victoria" appear in six cases, while "Domain" is to be found seven times, and "King" or "King's" eight times. In some cases the /lames of streets, owing to duplications, have been changed by the suburban local bodies, but in a number of such cases the new name chosen has been one which is already in use in an.other district. In many cases the duplications occur in contiguous districts, which, of course, tends to make "confusion worse confounded."