BREATHING SPACES FOR AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11201, 23 October 1899, Page 7

BREATHING SPACES FOR AUCKLAND.

TO THE EDITOR* Sir| —Tho proposal to convert Freeman's Bay reclamation into a publio recreation ground and breathing space is to be opposed for tho following reasons:—First, breathing spaces should be on high land where the air is as pure as possible. Freeman's Bay being low and level and having the city sewago passing through it must of necessity bo unhealthy, laden with malarial and other dis-ease-producing germs. Second, there is plenty of land just beyond Freeman's Bay on tho bill which could bo bought for less money than tho Bay flat will bo worth in the not distant future. This high land is eminently suitable as a Ireathing space and recreation ground. Tlo early advent of rapid and cheap transit by electric trams will make this high ground as easily accessible as the Bay flat. Third, the whole of the Bay will bo required by the Harbour Board for docking and other commercial purposes. Fourth, there must eventually bo a bridge across the harbour to Northcote, thus opening up a largo area of land suitable for setting asido as breathing spaces and recreation grounds for the city. Tho only people who would really benefit by Froos man's Bay Flat being turned into a public ; recreation ground and breathing space I would bo tho medical fraternity.—l am, etc., | R. M. Heightox § Coombes' Arcade, 130, Queen-street.