BROOKLYN AND VOGELTOWN

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9175, 15 October 1915, Page 7

BROOKLYN AND VOGELTOWN

REQUEST IfOR BETTER ROADING. X deputation from the Vogeltown Electors'. Association and of citizens of Brooklyn, waited upon the City Council last night to urge their claims to a now road between their districts. Mr Tanner acted as spokesman for Vogeltown, and Mr Reid for Brooklyn, while Mtb Macdonald voiced tho interests of the women of both districts. The speakers pointed out the excessive steepness of the present road connecting the two districts. It was Tiery easy to go down the hill, they declared,- but" a very different matter indeed returning up the hill. Tho want of a good-surfaced road at a reasonable gradient was, they complained, keeping back the whole district, and Mrs Macdonald said tho ebeopness of • the road was a great trial to mothers and young children. The Mayor (Mr J. P. Luko) said that the council had put a new road from VogeAtown tn Brooklyn on the reads schedule, and. it would have been on© of the first roads that would have been formed if the schedule had materialised, but unfortunately it did not materialise. Plans had been prepared by the e:ty engineer (Mr W. H. MortoiO, but the route was not yet definitely decided. The council was clearly of opinion that that •part of the city' merited not only their interest but substantial action, and he trusted that the council would before tho end of the present financial year come to a satisfactory conclusion that would enable tie -work to be carried out. He thought that might be done in spite of the financial difficulties caused bj- the wax.