THE AUCKLAND RAILWAY STATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6816, 21 September 1883, Page 5

THE AUCKLAND RAILWAY STATION.

The people of Auckland will be gratified to learn that the apprehensions entertained last week in respect of the railway station buildings are not to be realised. As to what may have been intended, or to what extent the rumours current were warranted, it would be as ungracious as it would be profitless new to enquire. Enough to know that the idea ot wooden buildings is not to be entertained, and that a substantial structure of brick is to be erccted on the reclamation. At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday Mr. Peacock, when the question as to the Auckland railway-station was raised, undertook to elicit the intentions of the Government in the matter. He has been prompt in doing so. He asked the question at once, and Ministers —who were no doubt prepared on the subject by the remarks we made a few days ago, and who were aware of how the people of Auckland felt on it—at once answered that the railway station to be erected on the reclaimed land would be of brick. This is satisfactory. It would have been to be deplored if, after waiting for so many years for a station, a mere temporary wooden shed had been put up. which would have been adangerto the warehouses amongst which it stood. It now only remains for the Government to lose no time in having the station built, so that the inconvenience we at present sutifer shall be put an end to a? soon as possible. Also, it is their duty to erect on this, the most prominent site in the town, in its busiest quarter, and at the gate through which every traveller enters, a commodioiis and handsome structure.