THE CITY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8327, 16 March 1912, Page 2

THE CITY.

CHRSSTCHURCH DAY BY DAY.

Of 5,100 voters who recorded their votes at the Christchurch licensing election on Tuesday, 893 delivered informal papers. The Temperance Party contend that the intention or these voters was plain, and that tiiey desired to vote for the Temperance ticket, but omitted to erase tne ; nrso name on the list, which was printed close to the top of the ballot paper. If these 893 votes had been allowed, all those on the Temperance ticket would have been returned. Attention was drawn to the matter by the NoLicense Party, but it is understood that it. is.unlikely that the party will take any action. Only one farmer has gone bankrupt since last June m Christchurch at least only one through the Ofccial Assignee's Office. Of 20 who have passed through the Assignee's hands m the last nine months four have been labourers, two storekeepers, two plumbers, and the others are as follow: — Farmer, traveller, builder, tobacconist, motorman, dentist, butcher and baker, laundrynian, housewife, musician, station-hand, and biograph operator, A large number of the workers' dwellings, being erected at Sydenham, are nearly, completed; and should be ready for,-occupation jvithin a week. Altogether sixteen, houses are being built to the order/of various persons, who have made application under the provisions of the Workers' Dwelling Act, 1910. Applications are still coming for different parts of Christchurch, but the only land available .is at Manderville Road, lliccarton, where four or five sections are vacant. The extension of the boundary of Greater Christchurch to the waterfront at New Brighton is regarded by the Mayor of New Brighton as being /one of the things the future holds for the city. Speaking at a little ceremony at Page's Road yesterday, Mr Opie said that before very long there would be rows of houses from the pier to the Cathedral. He added that before that time New Brighton would have joined m with Greater Christchurch. A comparatively small borough like New Brighton could not go | m for a high pressure water supply and other extensive necessities, but joined with the city these necessities would be nearer realisation.- The chairman of the Heathcote County Council (Mr Geo. Scott), remarked that the Council had always before it the idea that the district would some day form a part of Greater Christchurch.