AUCKLAND'S DESTINY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14818, 23 October 1911, Page 8

AUCKLAND'S DESTINY.

COMMANDING TWO OCEANS. i . .__■ ] —— . ■ . ! ,Mr. Arthur J. Rees begins an [''•".rated ; account of New Zealand in thi month's i number of the Empire Magazine, and he j predicts" that Auckland will become the greatest port in the Empire, * lie writes : "Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand, is also the loveliest-'last. loneliest, loveliest!' Kipling called it. Its soft beauty shines out even in New Zealand, where every prospect pleases. A : glance at the map of New Zealand will show you that Auckland is built on a narrow isthmus that prevents the North Island of New Zealand from becoming two. On this isthmus Auckland rests like a seabird, with outstretched wings touching the . ocean on both eides—the suburb of Onehunga on the west coast, its eastern . suburbs on the north shore of the east ; < coast. No other city in the world has two - harbours, east and west j nowhere else "can you see from a mountain too two tides xiiing and falling. Before many years a canal will be cut from east to west, and the twain shall meet in spite of what Kipling says. Then Auckland will be th 3 greatest port in the Empire, with a direct ' waterway between a deep water harbour . on each coast. ~•"' |