PAKNELL PARK SCHEME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 11

PAKNELL PARK SCHEME.

WORK OF IMPROVEMENT. BUILDINGS TO BE PuEMOVED The ' details necessary for carrying into effect the decision of the City Council to ; properly open up and develop Parnell Park' have . been considered -by the Parks Committee of the council, with the result -that the:improvement works are. to ! he carried out without delay.- A commencement will be ; made with; the clear- ' ing up of . the Kilbryde frontage as far i as Bridgewater Road next week. • «: The Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, stated ■ yesterday that the necessary arrangements had been made for the acquisition 1 of . the ; Cole property, which now cuts 1 into the park area. The improvements '< would ' involve . the removal of Kilbryde, ' the Gillies : house ' and the Cole resid- ' ence, and these would be offered for sale * and removal. In the meantime all those [ concerned in . the tenement house; in the • park had been given. due notice. . This ! policy had been arrived at after the ful- \ lest consideration; by the council, and when the improvements were 1 complete J the entire area would be transformed and made available to the public for its 5 proper ; use as a park, which .was . not 1 wholly the case •at present. In order ' to. have the work carried out in a comprehensive manner the parks superintendent had been instructed to prepare plans | arid report in detail. f -