MILLION PEOPLE

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1930, Page 7

MILLION PEOPLE

WELLINGTON’S CAPACITY.

“Wellington will yeti carry a population or one million I peopie.” said the Mayor (Mr G. A. Troup) -at the Advertising Ulub’s luncheon. last week.

“You ask where they are to be placed. When the present city area is fully built over it will accommodate iJOUjOOd people. 1 do not say this loosu y. 1 have studied the district with a contour area map, and have figured it out on an acreage basis. Another 3iA/,000 could be accommodated in the Hutt Valley and Etisobourno while Oliariu Valley, Johnsonville, Tawa Flat, Porirua, PaiiautaiiUi, and Plimmerlon wi.l also taJte. 3U0,00l) people. It will Ibe possible to serve the last named area—all areas—with water from the Hutt River, conserved in reservoirs near the top of the hills separating the Hutt district from the-Porirua district. • I

“I feel sure the Hutt River- will be trained and controlled with' locks to 1 form a waterway from the harbour to Upper Hutt. The great sheet , of shallow water in Porirua Harbour will be used in future partly as an aerodrome and a seaplane base, and partly as harbour, and docks. The scope,and the magnitude for the improvement ol the city have no limits, “All the time the city will go on expanding until its . boundaries will extend over the hills in every direction. The Greater Wellington of the future will embrace a large metropolitan area extending from Cook Strait in the south to Upper Hutt in one direction, and to Plimmertou in the other, and will include in its area Johnsonville, Tawa Flat, Porirua, Titalii, Paremata, Pahautanui and Plimmerton. With such an area provision can lie made for a population'; of over a million.”