SUMNER'S DESTINY.
GATEWAY TO THE PLAIN'S. The bastion of the Port Hills barred the passage of the Pioneers between Sea and Plains nutil the tunnel and the railway were constructed. In the interval it was touch and go that a quite different solution was not decided upon. Sumner narrowly escaped becoming more important than a pleasant seaside resort, and a favourite residental suburb. When the Provincial Council was discussing the then, as now, vital question of communication "vitween Sea and City,- the alternative to ra-'Vway and tunnel -as the deepening of the Simmer bar, and the cutting of a canal up to Christchurch. By the r;•.; ~ow majority of one the Provincial Counc-"' decided on the railway and tunnel connexion, and so Sumner lost the chance to become the Gateway t,c the Plains. But did that one vote decide Sumner's destiny? There are some who still firml;- believe with that old-time minority that Canterbury's true and best Gateway is via Sumner! Some believe that Sumner's original destiny will yet be realised!
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 25 October 1927, Page 5
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171SUMNER'S DESTINY. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 25 October 1927, Page 5
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