"ON COUNTRY' LINES."
THE SEASIDE RESORT PROBLEM. In his inaugural spcech as Mayor of Eastbourne, Mr. W. J. Organ said that residents had been attracted to Eastbourne by a desire to get. away "from the stone walls and flagged pavements; and the greyness and confinement of city life." He favoured the development of the borough "on country lines" ii) order to preserve as far as possible tlio native charms of the place. Asked as to how that was to be accomplished, Mr. Organ said yesterday that good work had already been done . towards that end by the action of tlio council in acquiring tho bench and a strip of land immediately alrave it for the purposes of a parade. Then lie favoured conserving as far as was possible the open spaces within the borough, and continuing tree-planting wherever it could be efficiently carried oil. Ho did not think that any of the residents of Eastbourne desired to see the place converted into a closely-built township. People who desired that would hardly go to Eastbourne —they would stay in Wellington. He favoured settlement, of course, but an eye should be kept by the council on any planning that could bp done so as to preserve tho rural attractiveness of tho place.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1746, 10 May 1913, Page 6
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210"ON COUNTRY' LINES." Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1746, 10 May 1913, Page 6
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