NARROW STREETS.
Mr Laurenson, M.H.R. for Lyttelton, gave a timely warning in the House of Representatives, on Thursday night, against the iniquity of permitting municipalities to construct or take over streets under 66ft in width. "Look at Wellington," he said. "To day I suppose this city has a population of sixty or seventy thousand people. In a quarter of a century the population will be over 100,000. The streets, or at all events some of them, will be then entirely inadequate. From a utilitarian point of view the arguments in favour of wide streets are unanswerable. 1 don't think there should be a single street in the whole colony of a less width than 66ft." He believed that those who came after us would wonder why streets had not been made wider than 66 feet.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8518, 24 August 1907, Page 5
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135NARROW STREETS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8518, 24 August 1907, Page 5
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