KARANGAHAPE WARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11581, 20 February 1901, Page 6

KARANGAHAPE WARD.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l wish through your columns to protest against the action of the city councillors in altering the name of the Karangahape ward to Grafton. What could have led them to commit such a blunder I cannot conceive. It seems the Council must either abolish the ward system or reduce the number from six to five. They have decided on reducing the number and readjusting the boundaries. Clearly, one ward must drop out, and that should be the one least likely to cause inconvenience to the general public. Now, Karangahapo Ward should never have been so named; it should have been Newton. The district, one of the most populous and busy in the city, has been

known by that name all through New 7 land and the colonies for 30 years or J? It has been a postal district for quitftof*' • number of years. Three banks hare «tv ' lished branches in the vicinity, adding V •'' * ton to their title. Churches and J?* 1 ?" '" \ have done the same. The Education ' I and Police Department recognise it tv most important branch of the Tram {* ■ 1 pany's service is the Newton and P6nsorS"' ' Through some error the 3urrey Hills • "■ a few yeas ago gazetted Newton* The en** * fusion which followed induced the Suit Hills people to change the name to Or** ' Lynn. Now the City Council are makm more and worse confusion, and causing m~? friction, by trying to annihilate this m£j &■/ important district. This they cannot & and it would be much better if they reconsidered the whole questionconsider % in the interests of the public and not of few councillors. lam pleased to note that" the Ratepayers' Association have take* action, and I trust the Newton people will support them by a monster petition.—l ajj etc- , " Newton Newton, February 13, 1901. " TO THE EDITOR. " r Sir, —Condemned and sentenced to extW tion! For what crime? "Whose nostrils ha* been disturbed by the "road," the "road" ' of Auckland tradesmen and workers? I 8 a not strange that our unfortunate district has been choused out of its rightful nam* more than once? Considerable confusion has been caused by changes, and has had to be palliated by further changes; scarcely has the change been settled when another change is projected, which cannot fail {» cause more trouble. Why is all this? Who is the mover? Have the Council power to change a name without any apparent cause* —I am, etc., F.C. '