SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 653, 2 November 1909, Page 5

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

( AQCKLiND'S claims. AN APPEAL FOE SERIOUS CONSIDEfIATION: "" (By Telegraph.—Sr>ocfal Corrosaondont.) 1 ■/ ■ Auckland, - November\ 1; .■ . '.The effort being jnad© by 'Mr-'CrloTerj M f P; . fof Auotland Contrnl. fto induce tho Governpient to consider the transference of the seat : <>t,Government back •tq Auokland la considered tiiriely by tho president of tho Auckland Chamber'of Commerce (Mr. B. Kent) ' seat of 'Government .should never .have teen shifted' from this city/' /said Mr.. ICentj I r'• when asked to. express' iis ' : views'on' the mat-' tor* "but' in' anycose.thocauses vshich led to'. l ; : V> th<) transference no : longer exist. .The. isolation ! /of tho city has boen .removed by-the. owning'of tho,Alain Trunk.line, and it would-be.an ad-1 . inirablejhing.from overy point of.view if the eoat..of Government lvcro in Auckland. ; Wo havo ample room for tho accommodation of tho ■. respectivo. houses,; ;and, osa now Hquse of . Parliament kv to bo* erected, tho; timo 6c«mi quite opjmrtnno. for the question to bo very considered, although''.samo fnembora ?: of utho House,- in their attempts at sarcasm, . asked.where Auckland was,...ToMnen who live jf.lin'ii^hiijstack.y.only.vons'fidvico': can :.be-given, :. (a'como out .into the world. and kijow. whero •• 'Auokland is,. aiid 'thoy .will j never, want: to' Icavo it." 1 -' s- In reply to: a question '.as t'o what advantages : Auckland could claim to, counterbalance tho fdet that it was not situated near the centre . w, the dominion, Mr. • Kent- said it .was a first • Ptirt of ycall and a last. Its situation, its limit- ; . lewground" for ,expap6l<m, .an(l ;;i|B,; i tD i Mnifibent . harboui',:;gave ,it.- , advantages over the \olher v cities of Npw .Zealand, and with : tho lnauijuxa--tion of the; Main'i'runk Railway speedy distribution of cargo, mails, and passengers i■ tould b® 'made'torwmffpart' of •' tho" Domi rnotr; Moreover; indications: were-that - there ' would - be; in the, earlyof uthro: a'great v.. of .'.various lines 'of: Steamers: !upo'ii-Auckland !: as thoir.:first port of oall. 'It followed thatitrejriendonsSexpanSiori : t{akei,placo.;withiii ■v 1 s 'tho nest two decades'in this oity.. • .