GREATER AUCKLAND AND THE MOUNT EDEN MOVEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15133, 25 October 1912, Page 4

GREATER AUCKLAND AND THE MOUNT EDEN MOVEMENT.

- Sir,—l would lite your permission as one of the originators -of the above movement to place before those interested some aspects of ''■ the question. No. -1 ward is the oldest - most • thickly-populated portion v "of s'Shw borough, and ad3omsth-l dory of the city, proper. The ratable value is some,: £30,000, and contained wiiihin i£ area are : the ; Ammunition Works; one r : timber; yard jind sawmill, : twi largo joinerv factories and one moulding factory* Seethe closely, built greets of ,residences -2 for- the artisan i and working i classes: « movement is-: a;~ perfectly -legitimate, ahd ; reasonable one. and ; is! bojng earned' Sunder the provisions of- the Municipal Cdr- : poratipns Act,, which does not remiii& tK«* the .-.Borough-.; Council should at all in- the; matter./ It is:. &^<suJ?W of the portion it is a populai-movement can be gauged ? bv ■ the status of those who signed +K«rJr??- ™ : gained by, amalgamation with, by, tho city. The first aud'mols£SN^ : be date fire brigade- system when reautred • T ask -this question /<& : any ■• objecto? I would-be the simultaneously within the : would mean, that valuaMA ™L~~ Jt > '-> ■ ? fc next advantage wl bo a S«i ho

but i moid ■ reliable, ' has no waterworks a . purchaser from t]l<f gallons, and retails at . la M per , 1000 gallo^^^'i^PM •• tho -water bo surer. Shoulcf effect :°f curtailing :;th^i|^||^te)| outside districts would .is no obligation •on : 'ilift' :^^^S^lN]B a ll ft oth T what 9 Another advantage '>o^9^ll of the rubbish-tip 1 Picture No 1 ward 1 reft of refuse to . the depot further out." y'corifi^^p^^S depot further out. Wh* alone should be 6ufißcies'^^^^^| tor to sign the petition ~ tion is that house refu Sa -^^^#J all over the borough, and V '** K largo excavation, and not 3||§p?l dreds, or the arfshig^f^;^^ 3 ? I dreds, or the arming of vS^wl&llSl dangerous effluvia. Ther^?!sNp«i^ ; tion of tho elertrio-l®i^^P®l| of the city, and the M®if^i drainage. The movemeniii^g§'»l proposition from the : standwiitff 1 motors, for which advocacvSifes :S the Mayor « radicals.-" If % : s|Pll quit our present conditioMMwlfi , * £lgos named 18 to be a term, and leave the publicl "the" arguments are soundlffiiWm 1 or the statements true. , - that for a year or two we wiif *$*» I a little more rates under 9 the borough, but look. I v 1 *m?m I