ADVANCE TE KUITI.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 355, 26 April 1911, Page 5

ADVANCE TE KUITI.

To The Editor. Sir, —lt is surprising, the rapid progress made in your town —or may I be permitted to call it the nucleus of a city. A few years ago native scrub wis rampant everywhere, but has given way to buildings of wood and iron shops and offices. The streets are now beint: put into good order; being metalled and having footpaths formed. Boarding houses are always packed to their utmost, so much so that one can safely say there is room for another three cr more i large houses to meet the demands for | accommodation. I was pleased to I hear that an enterprising gentleman j intends erecting a building on a seci tion adjoining Rararonga street, | which probably seems at present out of the way, but which is only two minutes walk from the railway station. lam led to believe it is the intention of the go-ahead city fathers to erect a bridge over the Mangaokewa river. I was told a footbridge—surely not. Such a primitive undertaking appeals to me as absurd, in view of the fact that the town must expand, and why bother with a bridge for foot-passengers, when a traffic bridge will have to follow sooner or later. I sincerely hope while on this subject, the Borough Councillors will benefit by the experience of others, and make a substantial job of their undertakings in the first place. A traffic bridge would make a nice street of Sheridan street, and would greatly assist those who are anxous to build up Te Kuiti and make it one of the most prosperous inland towns in the colony. One must not lose sight of the importance of making streets in a town from the beginning, as so much depends on this later, and a footbridge as suggested would be only "playin' bridges." —I am, etc., VIATOR.