Posted on 16-4-2002

Gutting Of Auckland Continues
by Jon Smyth*

There is an online petition to save the wonderful Parnell Baths. Please
pass it on. www.parnellbaths.org.nz/index.html

The destruction of the character of Auckland by the systematic demolition
of its heritage structures is criminal stupidity inspired by greed and or
penny pinching. This tragic shortsightedness has lost us our trams, trolly
buses and countless buildings and structures that added character and
colour to our city.

Auckland is our home and should have the trappings of a home that make it
worth living in (and visiting). Instead we are letting elite groups of
avaricious idiots rob our home of the silver and treat it like a banal game
of SIM-CITY to the detriment of the residents.

Parnel pools must be saved! Thats my view anyway.

* jon@flip-city.com