GREATER WELLINGTON.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 672, 24 November 1909, Page 6

GREATER WELLINGTON.

CHANCES,OP MIRAIIAE JOINING IN. ' ' KAEORI ALSO MENTIONED. It is likely that tho proposed amalgamation r > of Miramar with the city will bo discussed in committoo.whcp. it conies up for consideration at to-morrow night's meeting of' the Borough i Council;'and the result will be awaited with -interest' ;-'//*?.-.; ■.'■: '■ .' ■•'''• ; /: ; /: / In,the course of an interview with a reporter jesterday,; Dr.' Newman stated .that tho city nad been .approached on the question sonio little time ago. ■ Since then negotiations had been proceeding, ; and •: it' was ■•. probablo that within a.month or two the question would bo before tho City Council, i-'lt i 6 also in tho air;" said the' Mayor, "that Karori may approach the'city with a view'to considering mcorporatidn.: JNo actual movement.has) jet oeen madeiby the Karori Borough' Council, but tho matter is in. the minds, of residents, and eomothing may come out of it."■■•;:'."' '-, Dr, ; Newmftn expressed himself afc. being in favonr/of a still Greater Wellington, and inclined: to'tho gradual absorption of the boroughs surrounding the city. Ho thinks that the whole of tho people living round tho bays of/Wellington 'harbour should 1 be in tho one municipality.. The whole of tho hoibour foreshore was in tho hands of; tho Harbour Board, arid practically all tho, persons who reside at Onslow, Johnsonville, Ngahuuranga, Petone, Latter Hutt,' and vEnstbonrno, and in tho city of Wellington were practically one people, Of course, added Dr. Newman, an amalgamation of the whole could hot bo- brought: about for some-years to, come, .-but the - process of absorption of tho 6mall boroughs surrounding big * cities was proceeding fast iii nil civilised cities in the world,/and' tho community of interest of -tho whole, of the: people in tho boroughs surrounding Wellington being identical, the same thing must follow, hero. There was no ( doubt/a groat ndvantago' to the mother city' ill absorbing the outlying; boroughs, and after all", Onslo.w, Potane, \Hutt, r and: Easlbourno were within a ten-mile radius of the Gciioral Post. Otfice. .f ; Consoquojitly there would Wj no difficulty in instituting a species of London County .Council/to govern , tho wholo of lh» district. -^/ •-V , ;■::.::