CONFUSION IN THE NAMES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9776, 16 April 1914, Page 7

CONFUSION IN THE NAMES.

STREET NOMENCLATURE-IN AUCKLAND. One of the most striking examples of the confusion that is associated with tho multiplicity of local bodies in Auckland and which will require rectification as the greater Auckland scheme u carried into effect is tp be found in the frequent repetition in nomenclature. Instances of the careless and happy-go-lucky system of naming Auckland streets is amazing. The extent tc which confusion must often be caused by those 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" show& that there are upwards of 100 cases, ol names which are used more than onw in the naming of "streets," 'Toads,' 1 "avenues," "Terraces," "Crescents/ etc. There are no fewer than 60 casef in which these names are used twice and over 30 instances in which they oc cur 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, whilst "Domain" i s to b( found seven times, and "King" or "King's" eight times. In some case* the names of streets owing to duplication have been changed by» tho 6ubur ban local bodies, but in a number ol snch cases the new name chosen hat boon one which is already in U6e in another district. In many' eases the duplications occur in contiguous district* which, of course, tends to make "confusion worse confounded."