HOMES ON HILLCREST

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 4, 28 April 1939, Page 4

HOMES ON HILLCREST

—o WHAKATANE'S GROWING tSUBURB ——- . ' . RAPID DEVELOPMENT For sixty or seventy years the fern v has softened the outlines of the hill>terraced by the old-time Maori, and .. Hillerest has stood up stark and lonely above Whakatane. Now £he houses of another race are back where tlie palisaded Villages ■ once stood and again man looks out iroin his'own front porch over the wide plains and shining sea. ]*or ecnturies before the Europeans first saw Whakatane, and for years after that event the terraced hills were • girt with palisades and coveretf with whares, even such a cramped peak, as Pukctnpu, the conical hill immediately above Whakatane on ihe left of the Ohopc Road, having its pa. In the seventies the only ants were the A.C. men in . doubt, then that force was drawn with the coming of peace and Whakatane folk left the high hill's-, and lived on the.'flat. Now the tide; of habitation is flowing back with: increasing impetus. People realise what Hillerest can offer for healthy and jileasant living and so manjLsec... tions are being developed and nouses built that each week the familiar' background undergoes some change. Owners of property who-have built, arc building .or intend to very short- ! ly include Messrs Miles Hamill, B. S. Barry, Allan Bridger, Reeve Canning, S. Armstrong, Ken Stewart,, S. Tippett and George Hamill, whileit is stated that there are of||£rs who may shortly develop their hold-, ings. All this of course has had its cfYect on land values which have doubled in a comparatively. short time. Improvements have been made to the Hillc'rest Road, and there are further works planned. some of" which, such as the provision of electricity, must be carried out- as each new home is built. need? . wM'-h no doubt will be attended to * on" day include the provision ©$*foot paths, but harassed borough councilors and ofFia-ds, mindful of the ef. •>rf on fhe rat?=:. ?rp nerhans not in too much development of that nature at present.