Healing Scar on Sides of Mt. Wellington

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 174, 13 October 1927, Page 1

Healing Scar on Sides of Mt. Wellington

Road Board Intends to Cease Quarrying GRASS TO BE PLANTED Mount Wellington's dreadful scar is soon to be healed with a merciful covering of grass and trees. For 20 years the quarries have been eating into the grand, historic, old hill, but the Mount Wellington Road Board has at last decided to cease spoliation and apply Nature’s balm of vegetation to the gash. Except for the sloping-off of the raggedness and tidying the scar, the road board, said the chairman, Mr. Selwyn Hamlin, yesterday, had completed quarrying. One part of the pit had been closed, and the rest would also be closed shortly. Some people had been alarmed at the erection of a new boundary fence above | the quarry, but that was for the pur- | pose of sloping the rock back to the jangle of repose. It will then be pos- ; sible to sow grass there. “We find,” said Mr. Hamlin, “that unused parts of the face if left alone do not take long to become covered with green.” I Mr. Hamlin explained that the road ! board proposed to substitute blue metal | from another quarry for most of the uses to which Mount Wellington metal ! had been put. ; Neither sales under royalty nor tradj ing with the public in Mount Welling - ton scoria would be allowed by the board in future.