TOWN ACCESS
THE record attendance at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last Thursday evening bore ample testimony to the growing interest in the Harbour Board's proposal to reclaim the fiats on the northern Strand ?«nd to extend a new access road to link with King Street. Obviously as one speaker said, such a scheme for -the expansion of the business section is a' logical and far-sighted one and will if carried into effect do away once and for all with the bottleneck entrance of Commerce Street. Ther6 will be no possibility of our town ever taking on a normal growth as a wellbalanced and,, planned industrial and business centre unless room is made for an extending network of roads from the present Strand. Just where the hub of the potential Whakatane will be is hard to venture, but the fact remains that if all future expansion is to( be compressed to the long snakeline of Commerce Street, with the tidal flats as a permanent boundary, the prospects of a symmetrical consolidated centre are simply non-existent.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 90, 17 July 1945, Page 4
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177TOWN ACCESS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 90, 17 July 1945, Page 4
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