FUTURE OF GISBORNE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19988, 13 July 1939, Page 6

FUTURE OF GISBORNE

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE Next year Now Zealand will celebrate its centenary, and in the course of the hundred years, Gisborne, the landing place of Captain Cook, has played a prominent part. From Maori pa to bush settlement, to township and then to one of • the largest boroughs in New Zealand, the pioneers played their parts nobly and well. Now the town and the district generally appears on the eve of a new and oven move enterprising ora. Gisborne has now one of the most-up-to-dato tiro stations in the Dominion, new playing grounds have been laid out in upper Palmerston Road and in Score Road, while projects of the near future include automatic telephones, and tt centenial drive into the town along the Waikanao beach foreshore from Stanley Road to Waipaoa. Visitors from all parts of tho Dominion are expected to attend the pageant next year depicting realistically the landing of Captain Cook on Haiti beach. But private enterprise has not been lacking and ■a typical instance of this nature is the extension of the private bar of tho Gisborne Hotel, and the introduction of the famous Waitemata ale, thus making this tho most up-to-date bar, with the most up-to-date ale, Waitemata. Tho private bar at tho hotel is to bo thrown open to the loading public, on Saturday next, and this will no doubt prove the most popular rendezvous in the town. The bar of tho pioneers was ol'ttimcs a few barrels, and a stray kerosene tin or two for scats, but the up-to-date bar a‘. the Gisborne partakes morj of the nature of a high-class elubroom, where all classes of the community moot on tho level in an atmosphere of good fellowship. Naturally such a rendezvous must be embellished with beverages out of tho ordinary, and the proprietor, Mr. .r. Bray must be congratulated on being the pioneer hotel licenseo to introduce the famous Waitemata ale to this town. V nectar lit for the gods, and get with medicinal qualities, so skilfully mixed by some of tho best brewers in the southern hemisphere as to defy detection, it. is no wonder why. Waitemata alo is so popular that it is transported to all parts of tho world. The huge cellars of the Gisborne have been rearranged to make room for large stocks of Waitemata ale, and special arrangements have been made for regular weekly shipments. •Saturday next should he a red letter day iu the history of this town, with the opening of the privao bar at the Gisborne after extensive alterations and the introduction of Waitemata ale. Honour is rightfully accorded the pioneers of this district, and ns the pioneer of Waitemata. ale in Gisborne the name of ihe popular licensee should be added to tho list.-