"A PUBLIC NECESSITY."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 935, 30 September 1910, Page 4

"A PUBLIC NECESSITY."

SOUTH WELLINGTON ■ TRAPFICi '-<■ '. At the meeting of: the Mirimar Borough CouneU. last; 'the/Mayor (Mr. J. Brodie) moved: "': '. That the Government be urged not .' only to retain tho To Aro ltailway • Station, as a- public,'necessity.Vof .the -1 ; . first, importance to South Wellington, but also to make adequate provision, i for' .the prompt handling'■/ of goods-, there, as >well as the future extension , of the railway itseli, which will most / _ certainly be required in-the not distant -future to meet the heeds "of tie . very considerable population that will j : be located to the south of Te Aro." There were many .. good',reasons,-'' said . Mr., Brodiß, : why.' these proposals should .have the attention of. ; the. Government. .The. industries'vof South .Wellington—all that : portion of " the country south.-: of.'.the '.Queen's : Wharf-^were; considerably hampered by. the 'absence., of a' goods shed at To Aro <: In the-course of ; .fifteen, or twenty years the population ■of this' district - would be seventy .:or: eighty,. thou-. sand : people. It was. strange that ■ there was only one - avenue ; (Jenrois Quay) iirough'' frihich - tho industrial traffic ' of. 'South Wellington could pass..:',, With , increase of population that portion /of _the city would bo crippled unless sufficient wharves and railways were. : provided. Centralisation was - , not■: always - conducive; to progress. The only thing V it' had . done in Wellington. was to create . prohibitive values. Wellington 'could : not hope to -reach an eminence of progress unless the outlying l distriot-.received .a due meed of attention/; - .'ln addition to . the' erection of; a-goods shed at Te Aro, the line should; be extended to' serve the Island Bay, - Newtown, ; and Kilbimie ..: - The motion was. seconded by Councillor Mleod, and carried. ,-.,/ ~/ .y :'-///' ;