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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 205, 2 September 1904, Page 3

For Children's Hacking Cough at Bight, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, li 6d.* 1 Bow a moderato capitalist misses becoming a millionire.—ln reviewing the rise of property in New Plymouth during the deriod 1890 to 1904 it was possible for a £10,001) capitalist to bo on a fair road of becoming a millionaire, and it causes much study to-day before anyone can be in a position to say thut the opportunity has now gone by ; when we come to consider that the whole ol the freehold In the borough of New lymouth contains only about 347 1 *09—104 acres central ward, 89 ac ' « western ward, 159 acres eastacrfc 'ai'd—one-fourth of the total urn w which could have been pur--V ' or a bo u t £17,000 unimprovU 'thin the period mentioned, value wi 1 . , vi. * increased to a present which na& - , , » _ . „ i ii. unproved value of about aaleable un , ... . £222 000 y resldents remember a few years a, "° 8 « tion8 in t wero looking u w bui ' ers at ,f ls a section. Are the ™ sc " erß at £250 a section tolocal industries thai 1 th ® 1116 rise in value can be attributed t 0( It is practically the .Prosperity of Taranaki which the known as the Crown Dairy C "as the means of starting. T. e ar ° "° enterprising capitalists in ~ ew ■^ l >' mouth up to the present. 1 t cannot be long before capitalists wil turn their attention to what is the £ es*i colony in the world. Labou.? w ) follow capital. Tho population \ vjll increase, and when wo consider thiVt the total area of our borough couk"! be held by about 300 persons with a little over an ncre each, and rising in value as it has done with a population of <3OOO, what will be the valne when the population reaches 20.000, with large industries ? Property values in New Plymouth are "cast iron ; " depression can never affect them. Depression should cause unity and with unil.v we can drivo Taran ak : to prosperity- It in estimated that tlie iir/.t direct steamer would cause an increase in value of Taranaki property o! £500,000. Person, ally we should say now is the time to acquire freehold, if only on a small scale. Callaghan and Co. can offer opportunities of securing homes with small deposit, and in situations that the capitalists will want shortly. Again, in 1908, what will be the value of sections m the Veale Estate lit the expiration of the harbour toaxu*