Wanganui Looks Ahead
|_TKE many other New Zealand towns, Wanganui is booming these days. Wool prices are up and shopkeepers reported better business than ever this Easter. In the past three years the town has been going ahead rapidly. The trams have been replaced by buses, and streets are being repaved; the new Girls’ College at Wanganui East has been opened, a new Boys’ High School is in prospect, and the £100,000 War Memorial Hall for the Civic Centre will complete one of the finest collections of civic buildings in New Zealand. Improved berthing facilities at Castlecliff have been provided through the purchase of a new dredge, and the establishment of the Wanganui Shipping Company has given better service to South Island ports. Now Wanganui residents are asking themselves what the future holds for their town, and to keep the question before the public eye Station 2XA is starting a series of discussion programmes called Looking Ahead, to be broadcast at 8.30 p.m. each Sunday in May, starting on May 3. The first panel will suggest apparent avenues of progress open to Wanganui and district, and subsequent programmes will discuss in detail some of the more important of these.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 18
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199Wanganui Looks Ahead New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 18
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