WAKE UP THAMES"

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13938, 17 July 1919, Page 2

WAKE UP THAMES"

;: ' (By "Citizen-") , ' !

Our local bodies amd the! citizens . generally haivie for a niuanibeir of years , been very paititeitdo re the progress' of • Tlhaineis—d,ti&. advantage*—artist posss- , bilities. Everything was sin. ar stater of , suspended ainiinatdon'-^peirhapßi it wa% I a disease <Joimjmioinly oalled. 'miuinicfiipiail ; beithergy' that was tihe cause. Our I reitturned soldiers on being quesitiomed kttisi to whether ih&y saw 1 any difference in .'good: old Thames' admitted Hhiaifc , it was 'eittlll <\he> same' amd was cer* /tladnlly aiiot.'getting 1 more 4ikei Lotodon. , every day.' ( , j Now the war is oveir 1 let tifei wake ii)p.' ; i Lfett us realise the: jpossabilitdes of I Thames. First and foremositi let our : Harbour Board wake uip amd go ahead wikih the hairboair scthemie as-sug-gteetled by Mrl. Blair .Masoni. -..-.Let*/. do time be loist. Thames-is tihe nfltural • shippiimgi centrei fonr a, lairgie difit<rietiWith, anu upHtoi-diaite harbooxr trade will assuredly ctiine. Them.' ouif BoiToug'h Coiuaioil. wants also to wake tup amd set ai moret- on. The' amalgamation! of Bloctk;-" 27 and Pairawai with tihe Borough shouHd/bfr. <. finaEy seftitled as soon ks :pos9'ble,; Them.' no ttiirie should bi© losfti in ooor.pletraig the isew^erage scheme;. It is ai disgrace tihafb a> place of the fiii^&. populiation, and iinp'Oirtlancie'a^ Tli : a.rhe« v should so long! haiVe been, withoult, an up-to-datei sewerage. scheone. • Then our' Coujaty Coumcdl ■must wake uip, amd huny .on tlieiia- pro*posed roading 1 schemei. Our 1 main rttul as a. dfi«graoe. Then our Chamber 1 cf Coinmi&i-ce which hias ■of ' liaitie . showin some signs thaitl i« had' actually wakemed u>p, might :seiriously thiiailc aiboulb ways ;t*i*l.. meamisi for brid'Sjm^ th(o THiameig River. We hear a good deal about the Kopu) ferry t boiiti 'femes ,are ouily make-sihifltis. To secure a sait'iKifat'itloiry arod pett'WMaineoiifc mea.ns coimimiuniica.-it-ion; beibweiein 1 tihei Hauraikli Plaiins and : Thames a. bridge is ailvsdLutelV nece-s----sary. It is waassary in the inttetrepihs ■ both of the faiimors amd the tradespeoiplie ; As th© Chamiber of Commerce ( comsttsftig ,of the 4lr(a,d)eslpieo(ple ;of Thatmea ib is "their duty amd to t?ieir own iimfcerestis thaiti they ce.rry tthi® through' "to a suocesshtl issue. L/e* . somie calpaible enlgineer detlenruiine where the most suitiaibJei 'plaice is for the bridgei—somewhere aiboait Kiril- . kari let u« hloipei—Puiriri and Whar/?ipoa, are too fair 1 away from Thafmt3«. Then amotfoer brida% is. watoited <xver the Piaiko Rwjtrl. Th© Ngialtiea. bridge hag beem .a igreat hrxm, fa tihei nei<?h-: botirhoipd, but i'm tihei iiintleresrt'te ' orf a. large oiiumiber of fairmiorßi flifj Wniitakarumi, Piparoai, ctfo.. a: briiidgie Ro*ne-' where aibauti Hopaii or Pipiroiai 'is' ne>- #' oesea-ry.. '.'...' , , ' So wake up, -^t, *tlhesei scihempis: iituder waiy aiTOd ctoimipileitied amid ThpHimeis « will become otnie 'of the most. import- j "am* towWa in) the North; Island. '-