PUBLIC RESERVES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9166, 14 August 1908, Page 5

PUBLIC RESERVES.

AN INTERESTING TABLE. DOES MASTERTON NEED MORE RECREATIVE AREAS?

The ratepayers of Masterton will be asked on Monday next whether they consider it desirable that Mas,terton should increase its "living capacity," otherwise whether or not the town should embrace the unique opportunity afforded of acquiring for recreative purposes the Tixon street Showgrounds.' Mr J. Hunter, who is a strong supporter of the movement, has compiled the following table of figures, published in the most recent New Zealand Year Book, showing the public areas pet apart for reserves and recreative purposes in towns of various populations in the North Island. Appended is the table:—

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Populaserves. Ratetion, i Acres. ] payers Dannevirke 3,600 37 624 Woodville 1,140 8 443 Pahiatua 1,360 10 460 Masterton 5,026 48 920 Carterton 1,407 16 358 Greytown 1,20C 96 L64 Petone 6 303 45 S90 Onslow 2,100 35 619 Wellington 61,533 1,080 7,900 Karori 2,432 54 817 Eastbourne 500 519 330 Miramar 1,500 44 475 Whangarei 2,200 53 429 Onehunga 3,700 65 650 Thames 3,750 41 912 Te Aroha 1,059 66 233 Waihi 5,594 12 1,400 Hamilton 2,200 184 498 Cambridge 1,250 431i 297 Tauranga 1,090 414 333 Gisborne 6,000 6 1,000 Waitara 1,137 49 391 New Plymouth 5,200 68 800 Inglewood 1,156 29 293 Stratford 2,200 170 615 Hawera 2,500 87 466 Eltham 1,500 11 303 Patea 900 60 239 Wanganui 8,500 340 1,800 Marton 1,500 9 264 Taihape 1,300 112 190 Feilding 3,250 16 900 Palmerston N. 10,243 388 1,400 Foxton 1,450 10 257 Levin 1.300 11 336 Hastings 4,900 22* 1,124