AUCKLAND'S GREY STREET.
PROMOTION TO AVENUE.
CHANGE OF NAME APPROVED. Grey Street is in future to be known as Grey's Avenue as a reshlfc of the decision of the City Council last evening. A petition asking that the name should ; be changed was recently presented by 13 residents, who complained that recent remarks by the Commissioner of Police. Mr. W. B. Mcllveney, had brought the street into disrepute. The Legal and By-laws Committee recommended that the name be changed to Queen's Avenue, bnt the matter was referred back by the council, and the committee then suggested Grey's Avenue as a suitable name. "I see no real reason why the name should be changed," said Mr. L. A. Eady, in moving an amendment that the present name be retained. The thoroughfare was destined to become a street of warehouses, and "avenue" would not then be an appropriate term. The whole matter was too paltry to worry about. The amendment was lost by nine votes to 10, and the change of name was approved.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19719, 19 August 1927, Page 10
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172AUCKLAND'S GREY STREET. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19719, 19 August 1927, Page 10
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