Wellington’s Attractions

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 11

Wellington’s Attractions

Sir, —“Wakeup” in to-day’s issue of your valuable paper is quite right in his remarks, and it is quite a hopeful sign to see anyone in Wellington taking this attitude, and perhaps in the future we may wake up to the value to this city of its finest asset, the Oriental Parade, and make this the attraction to Wellington which it ought to be, and would be if our City Council had any ideas, or pride in their city. When one hears of the baths being closed on Christmas Day, and at 7 o’clock every evening in a summer such as this, it looks as if the'council was short of labour to run its own enterprise! It sounds pretty hopeless to expect much from it.

What is really required is a two hundred thousand club, to assist our council in progressive works, such as the beautifying of our Oriental Parade, and making it a proper pleasure resort for the people by giving them the necessary facilities for their proper enjoyment, both in the daytime and in the iong summer evenings which are the most enjoyable part of the day. This work has been extensively carried out in Timaru and in Napier, while the old Sydney Million Club was responsible for much that Sydney has today. “Town boosting” is not a new idea, and has been operating in America as a part of the municipal plan in many centres, and many a city of to-day has grown from small towns, with the aid of “town boosting.” After all. this is only municipal advertising, and must be good business.—l am etc.. WELLINGTONIAN.