WELLINGTON’S EXPANSION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2160, 16 August 1907, Page 4

WELLINGTON’S EXPANSION

Wellington's face lias been altered greatly during the past few years (says tlio Evoning Posit), and tho features that liavo been improved are a reminder that others arc sadly in need of a touch from tho beauty culturist. Noble buildings here arise beside Shabby, mean structures. The haughty monarch and the pauper are arrayed side by side; and everywhere the streets prove tlio adago that a eat can look at a king. Gradually, however, eyesores which disfigure valuable sites are being cut away by tlio builder’s surgeons, and month liy month sees the town more and more justifying its title of city. At the conference of representatives of the Harbour Board and City Council the other day, the Hon. T. K. Macdonald remarked that it was “deplorable that lands in tho centre of tlio city had been allowed for so long to he occupied by old iron and tumbledown sheds and timber yards, instead of by fine buildings,” but the substitution of palaces for hovels is coming, though the pace is not nearly rapid enough to satisfy impatient folk. At the rate at which Wellington is altering its geography, it will indeed he difficult soon for old pioneers to reconcile the picture with their early impressions of Poneke. Peaks have been torn down and hurled into valleys to make lovels in the place of hill and dale, and daily tlio domain of the sea hero is being restricted. The latest scheme is to place houses and shops and factories at tho head of Evans Bay in a place where the fish still flit about. Mr Macdonald states that twenty or thirty acres could be reclaimed at’ a cost which would not bo appalling. In the meantime hospital and educational authorities are asking for more space, and hint that some day tho Mount View Reserve will ho wholly required for tho public needs of the district.

The Queen possesses a pair of opera-glasses made of platinum, and set with precious stones, which cost nearly £3OOO.

What -a .well known Chemist Has to say of Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery.

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