MIRAMAR MOVES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 41, 12 November 1920, Page 7

MIRAMAR MOVES

1 » ; A PROGRESSIVE DISTRICT. , When (he Wellington City .Council takes over the Borough of Minimal- on January 1 next it will assumo jurisdiction over an area of land contiguous to tho city that is progfiiint with- rapid development—rcsidentially, industrially, nud scholnstically. During the • last twelve months Miramnr has grown more than in the preceding ten years, and that is only the beginning of a larger growth, i The Government houses, which flank > Broadway, are now being pushed on to completion, and by the end of tho year I it is likely that most of them will bo i tenanted, i On (lie other side of the road • the' Government has.secured a splendid - block of some sixty acres, on whieh it ' proposes to construct a model village on ' up-to-date town-planning lines. Farther ■ up the valley another group of Govern- ' ment. bouses are baing completed, affording further accommodation lor the househungry On tho industrial side, tho Wellington Gas Company ha 3 extended its activities to brick and fire-brick manufacture. The year, too, has seen tho establishment of- [ the Rubber Products Company at Minimar North, where a good quality of marketable goods is being already produced by a patent process. Along Miramar Avenue tho Vacuum Oil Company of Australasia has ' already made a. start on tho construction ; of its' oil-fuel tanks, and to accommodate r the big oil-burning steamers tho Wellington Harbour Board has decided to longthcn and strengthen the Miramar wharf. Another big work along tho livans Bay waterfront will ho tho erection of Ilia new power-houso for the Wellington tramways and olocliic light, n work which 'is likely to cost Die city over .£300,000 (when tho money is available). From au educational point of view the distriot promises to bo particularly well equipped. There is already Scots College, whioh is already tob small for tho demands being made upon it. Tho Ro- , man Catholic authorities have secured a very largo block of land, oast of tho powerhouse, for the college of the future, ( and through the tunnel in Seatoun tho "Star of the Sea" College for boys is doing admiraWo work under the guidance of Sister Bernard. Messrs. Campbell and Burke have already started on the crec--3 lion of a large and up-to-date brick State school for the Wellington Education Hoard, and a further school site up tho valley has boon procured in view- of futuro contingencies.