NEW PLYMOUTH OPTIMISTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 18 June 1914, Page 4

NEW PLYMOUTH OPTIMISTS.

This is an age in which a very large section of the public is content to take things as they come. If trade is good, they rake in the shekels uncomplainingly, nor do they bother to seek out the why and wherefore. Suffice it for them that trade is good. Is the contrary the case, they growl unceasingly, and .blame everything* else but themselves. Such people do not look far abend. But the Taranaki optimist to-day looks confidently to the near future, lie has every reason to do so. Here in town many things are being modernised. Preparations for electric trams are under way. The harbor baa demonstrated its fitness to accommodate a direct steamer from the Old World. The year should see a start made with the Eltham■Opunake railway, which will increase the trade inward and outward through the self-same port whose improvement the Walkuro has stressed, and probably the passing of a measure in the House of Parliament to enable the people themselves to construct the Opunake-AJoturoa line through Okato. Again, there is the pleasing feature that the farmers themselves are now alive to the need for improvement in the methods of fanning. The further progress of the Stratford-to-Main Trunk railway, the decision of the farmers to erect freezing works that will export through the port and arid to the prosperity of the district generally, and a very steady expansion in many other direction*, ail make New Plymouth's prospects exceeding bright. This is no day for pessimists.