"WELLINGTON SOUTH?"

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 10

"WELLINGTON SOUTH?"

tfOT SIMPLY ANSWERED

NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW

A correspondent has written inquiring what is the difference between Newtown and Wellington South.

It- is ;an easy question to ask, but not so easily answered, for as no actions of .State or successions'to land and,wealth have apparently depended upon the answer no authoritative decision has been given or is available.

The City Council seomingly does not heavily exercise 'its /mind over the problem and is quite agreeable to either district name; within reason; of course, for though .Wellington South embraces Ncwtown, New-town docs not necessarily leeiproeate.

The Parliamentary candidate, no matter what his party leanings, is hopeless as a source of reliablo information on the .point, for it is the Wellington South electorate in which he is. interested, not'merely tEe votes from Newtown, though certainly he docs not lightly pass them over in his pre-poll-ing day count.

I The postman may be expected to have a decided opinion, and he has, within reason—Newtown begins somewhere south of the Basin Be^erve and extends towards the park along the main road and.a^ibit on "either side. Wellington South' is all the rest, but not Berhampbre and Island Bay. The tramway conductor, asked to put ■you off at "Newtown, will invariably not say a .word, till the Zoo gates arc •reached. If you ask for*'Wellington South ho will ask for something definite or refuse to be interested at' all, or, on the other hand, he may decide that ih is the Wellington South .Post^Office (in Newtown) that you want. The Tramway Hotel, notwithstanding its distance from the Zoo, is, however, in Newtown., Wellington South is dry in any case. It appears from an analysis of those several views that both district boundaries are pleasantly indefinite, but that generally Newtown is regarded as lying within the hazily bounded Wellington South.

The correspondent also asks for the population of Wellington South, but here an ans'wer is unfortunately just about •impossible.' It can be 'safely described as, large—larger than Newtown 's.