MISSION BAY
Sir, —The scheme by which it i s proposed to turn Mission Bay into a people's park should bo well considered before being adopted. Mission Bay beach is practically the only unspoiled beach Auckland has left on this side of the water, and its state of natural beauty is its greatest charm. The quaint and picturesque old mission buildings arc now in their rightful setting of comparative solitude and peace, but as the centre of a noisy excursionists' haunt with bandstands £nd bathing sheds, and a carparking area, they .will be sadly out of the picture. One by one our beautiful beaches have been filched from us at the call of expediency. Is it not time we called a halt? Citizens should unite to save this; the last and loveliest of our beaches, and preserve it as it is now in its natural state of quiet sand, and sea, instead of a noisy bedraggled place of restless crowds, empty tins and greasy papers, of blaring bands and hooting motor-cars. Act now before it is too late. Isabel M. Cluett.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21245, 27 July 1932, Page 14
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181MISSION BAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21245, 27 July 1932, Page 14
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