A PROPOSED PARK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19377, 12 July 1926, Page 10

A PROPOSED PARK.

COX'S CREEK RECLAMATION. Need for playing areas. BOAT HARBOUR FACILITIES. Yachting enthusiasts and members of sports clubs in the West End of Auckland are. vitally interested in the proposal to reclaim land at Cox's Creek for a park. The scheme was brought before the Auckland City Council last week by Mr. J. Donald, a member of the Parks Committee, and the engineer was instructed to prepare .estimates and a report to be presented in three months. The area under consideration comprises abouj, 28 acres of mud flat above the new road which is being constructed across the foreshore at the creek. The land is part of the freehold which passed to the Auckland City Council in 1913 with the absorption of the Grey Lynn borough. Long before the amalgamation this property had been marked as a possible park area and the municipality has still the riparian rights of the surrounding land. The recent settlement of estates in the vicinity of Cox's Creek has closed many unofficial playing areas, and local football teams have to go far afield. The reclamation proposed would eventually offer boat harbour facilities adjacent to the park. At present several dozen launches, yachts and dinghies are hauled up at Cox's Creek and many are laid up for the winter on the bank surrounding the area concerned in the park proposal. The success of the sports ground scheme would mean that these facilities would be removed and small craft have to use the land outside the new road. This is not, however, regarded as a serious argument against a park, which would bo available to hundreds of residents. The scheme suggested would involve the dredging of the inlet near the creek to provide filling material for the enclosed area. This would ensure deep water outside the road and the greatest drawback to the anchorages at Cox's Creek would be removed. As far as the creek is concerned a closed sewer would take the place of the present muddy stream, and the filling would completely cover the sewer pipe line.