GIFT TO CITIZENS.
LAND FOR MYERS PARK.
ENTRANCE FROM NEWTON.
A gift of about a. quarter of an acre el land and an entrance to the Myers Put from Rarangahape Road conditio! being that the entrance become a pub!;: —has been made 10 the city by Divs4 Nathan.
Referrinc to the matter at the-officii] opening of the park yesterday afternoon,* the Mayor. Mr. C. J. Parr, C.M.G., said that the City Council scheme in can-'..':. nection with it involved a jet policy. The Town Hall was cramped for spue, and it was intended to ultimately acquire the land lying between it and the nnti end of the park so that the buildings might be extended right up to the park ; area. For some months past he had felt that the park would be incomplete witt- .*; out some thoroughfare leading into it from -' Karangahape Road, where Mr. David"*; v Nathan's property intervened. He had ■ been- negotiating with Mr. Nathan, and-..-;. that morning matters had reached a suc-' - cessful issue. The revolt was completely ■~ satisfactory to the city. (Applause.) There would be a connection between the / park and Karangahape Road. 'Mtly Nathan had agreed to give a strip el,£" land through his property 20ft wide. ;? ,J. Nathan, whose family had been connected M • with the city from its earliest days—ha grandfather had started in business on ' the same site in Shortland Street where; ; Messrs. L. D. Nathan's premises no» y[ stood—had also agreed to give to the ei*y the lower end of his property, of atorf a. quarter of an acre, without feo or» ward. (Applause.) This area wo&, subject to Parliament's sanction, be added to the park, with the beautiful ferns and plants which • were growing in it. " and ?>' j become the property of the people of ] Auckland for ever. In Myers Pari eventually, therefore, the city would have a property of Immense value— today it was worth five times its value of . a year agostretching from Karangahape Road to the Town Hall. (Applause.) Mr. Parr expressed the thanks of the citizens to Mr- Nathan for his generous ' public spirit. (Renewed applause.) ■■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15830, 29 January 1915, Page 4
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