Town Planning

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1911, Page 3

Town Planning

[PER PRESS ABSOCL.\i:ON.j AUCKLAND, This Day. Speaking on the Town Planning Bill, the Mayor took exception to the provision by which the ratepayers are not consulted.

Mr D. Musgrove, who, a few days ago set out for New Plymouth m c. nnection with the cycle race round Mount Egmont, wrote to his father stating that he had accomplished the journey on his -new bicycle built by Mr N. Barratt of Oxford street ; without a puncture. The northern nf-rfc of Norma-nby, he says, is owner hv the Maoris, and therefore tho council won't metal it. "I went," ho says, "through four miles of lovely mud and .slush, and I wound ■up on a great hill about a mile and half long, all mud. I passed tl rough Eltham, Stratford, Inglevood, and at last reached New Plymouth. The roads of Taranaki are terrible. People, down our way ought not to roust- about our.roadsTt is a pity some of them don't efme up here for a while. _ They are awful. Tho council is now mottling a great portion of the road w.e have to race on with crushed n.ctal, and talk alho.ut ihills,, why, I .fcvin has not sot an.v. Thev are