THE ABATTOIRS SITE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14019, 26 March 1909, Page 7

THE ABATTOIRS SITE.

• • .*! THE PROPOSED WORKMEN'S HOMES. ■A deputation from the Grey Lynn Borough Council waited upon the City , "! Council last night to ask it to reconsider,' ',: its determination to cut up. the whole of « ■ the abattoirs site for workers' homes. ; The Mayor of Grey Lynn (Mr. G. Sayers) . ■'"'.■'. • drew the attention of the Council to a road,, '\ near the site, it in his opinion being' purely a bullock track. He did not consider it) av|;3| road in any shape or form. If the Council decided, to < cut up the abattoirs site it would be a good thing to grant a road 66ft wide, and also, if they decided to build, to do so about the main road only and make ; I i the rest of the property a public reserve. <t Mr. Schofield said the site was an important one from the Grey Lynn point of - view. Tlie Grey Lynn Borough Council did not consider it in the interest of either the city or the borough to erect workmen's cottages, and leave the bullock track as it was. • " Another member of the deputation said '' i that only the frontage was suitable for ■• ;■ workers' homes. The rest of the property would make an excellent park. ■ Mr. CD. Grey (Mayor of Auckland), in reply, said the matter had been before the Finance Committee of the Council for.some considerable time, and it had been agreed - that the site should be cut up._ for. workmen's homes. At a recent meeting of the • Finance Committee the noxious weeds on the estate had been authorised to be burnt off. i If the Grey Lynn Borough Council would be prepared to join in this the Finance Committee would go into the matter. ...

A correspondent signing himself Justitia" writes to a Blenheim newspaper: ' r -'i;<~ "In all that has been published about the bravery, considerateness, and absence of panic marking the conduct of those who were on the ill-fated Penguin _ when • she went down, I think that justice has not been done to one man—Mr. :Loosemore, the third officer, who stood on the bridge burning the coloured lights to en- , able the crew and passengers to get out the boats and rafts. I.have been repeatedly told by one of the survivors that the action of Mr. Loosemore was courage- ■..'■; ous and unselfish in. the extreme. The night was pitch dark, and but for the continued illumination given by Mr. Loosemore, the scene would have been one of ,\j still worse confusion, with perhaps total .: loss of life. The lights burned on the bridge enabled those who did get ashore to locate and reach the rafts and boats in ' ; -, the boiling sea. Mr. Loosemore stuck io : his post to the very last, not even delaying to equip himself with a lifebelt, and , ' went down with the ship. Was there J J anything more courageous and '■ unselfish in the whole sad incident?" : i : ' L '■'. :■'"-■ < '; T O7CV-ViC'- fr^^ Baxter's lung preserver acts on coughs and r ; colds like a charm, giving strength and » j soothing influence to the respiratory organ*, »'... ,'; ■ ; '' -• *'M