A MODEL TOWNSHIP.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 222, 8 January 1877, Page 4

A MODEL TOWNSHIP.

In a. letter to the Auckland Ihrald on the- proposed Temperance Settlement, Mr. BroomhaH alludes as follows to another community established npon similar principles in America. "Many," he says, "have heard of Yineland. I visited the settlement in JaJy last, 30 mDes sottth of Philadelphia. It comprises 50 square miles of land, a wilderness tip to Bth Attgnst, 1863, when the * first stake was cut.* It had at the census of 1575, 11,000 inhabitants, 100 miles of good roads, streets, and avennes all planted with shade trees, one of which, LandFs Avenue, is ten milea long, two and a half miles being 106 ft. wide; nine well-btißt churches, a central high-school, with twenty minor schools; eight public halls, agricultural, horticultural, phrenological, historical, floral, and musical societies, building and mercantile associations, mills, factories, and timber yards; and a large hotel, costing; £IO,OOO, was opened a month or two before nty visit. Licenses to sell intoxicating lienors are not issued. Tine entire commtmity is called together every year, and the question of public-house or not Is regnlarly voted on. Last year fifty-seven people voted for one, bat their vote: was nothing against that of 11,000 inhabitants. As to the isaning of licenses for the common sale of alcoholic drinks,. I tMnk that no magistrate wotdd grant stteh & Keens© if opposed by a majority of the district, and yostr settlement of Albertland & a practical proof. A local option ■wonld b© a very convenient and desirable law, and I trust at no late day to see it obtained in England."