PLENTY OF LAND

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 260, 30 July 1919, Page 3

PLENTY OF LAND

FOR HOUSING SCHEMES. "We have any amount of Innd for houses." said the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) yesterday afternoon to a Dominion reporter. "We only have to devel'on what we have to find room for Jots of houses. We have land nt Evans Bay, opposite the bathing place, enough to build six or seven bouses. We.have land at Mnranui. Lyall Pay, Adelaide Road, Northland, and this fine block just acquired from tho AVilton Estate. That land is first-class building land in nice surroundings, and one of the?o days we'll hnve a tramway connecting up the Wadestown with the ICarori line, that will run right nnst the block. The housing scheme will 17© on all right, biit we must go slow at fir.'*—commence with tho ,£10,(100 scheme at Mnramii, and .Hint will give us an idea where we stnnd. There is plenty of.land, however, nnd most of it is land already in touch wiHi the w.-itor nnd drainage systems, which is a big help."

The Prince of Wales is giving a new lease of popularity to Hie howler lint. It wns William Coke, a nephew of tho famous "Coko of Norfolk." who first lind such a. lint designed in England by William Bowler, a well-known Southwark hotter, nnd made it fashionable in clubland. The early bowler weighed as many pounds as a modern lype does ounces.