STREET NOMENCLATURE

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1914, Page 6

STREET NOMENCLATURE

CONFUSION uTaUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, April 15. One of the most striking examples of the confusion that is associated with the multiplicity of local bodies in Auckland, and which will require rectification as I It*- Greater Auckland scheme is carried into effect is to L-. found in the frequent i repetitions in nomenclature. Instances of | the careless and happy-go-lucky system of j naming Auckland s:reels are amazing. | to which confusion must often be caused by these repetitions in the work of postal officials, cab, and express drivers and others, may be imagined by anyone who takes the trouble to glance through 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 100 cases of names which are used more than once in the naming of streets, roads, avenues, terraces. crescents, etc. There are no fewer than 60 cases in which the same names are used twice, and over 30 instances in which they occur three times. “Argyle,” “Eden,” “Gladstone,” and “Salisbury” are used four times, “Albert,’’ “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 names of streets, owing to duplications, have been changed by the suburban local bodies, but in a number of such cases the now name chosen has been one which is already in use in another district. In many cases the duplications occur in contiguous districts, which, of course, tends to make “confusion worse confounded.