GREATER NEW PLYMOUTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 107, 4 May 1903, Page 2

GREATER NEW PLYMOUTH.

A very important question is raisrjd by a correepondentin another ci'umn, one which d<s rvesthe careful attention of every ratepayer. It is being found everywhere that lha system of small boroughs is extravagant and disidvantrfgfous in many ways and in tho case of a veral of the larger cities a movement is in p- ogress to bring about au amalgamation of the chi-f and smaller boroughs. In the case of Welling Jon [this has already been accomplished <h» city of Wellington and the b rough of I Mthose having by a poil of the p.;op!o !united their fortune?, and 100 recent! election was ovtr the united an a N> w Plymouth is one of the smalles b.jrougl s in the colony aid thiaiei con'iguou-i to the town is fiMrjj up r. pi Jly that provision will soon havfo be made for drm'n >ge, and lighting and this will lead to many dilfiiiul'ies that would be easily nv< rcorn' if the whjl-i area was under muniaip.l control. We agree with our corres pondtnt that no time should be lest in takirg steps to efTac'i a remedy, and that the present time is opp itune, The longer tbe matter is delayed the

preafcer will be the difficu'tis and th" great?!' tho cost of eurmountiug thoni. We believe if the matter was properly put b fere tho ratepayers, both inside and outside the borough ar*a, there would soon be a ptrong feeling in [favour of a greater New Plymouth movement, and ihe result wiu'.d re that the siz? and importance of th c town would be propeily apprecia ed by those who only judge from the official stit'st'cs (f Uia suiall area now in cludid in Iha borough boundaries.