M.P. against Rolleston
(From Our Own Reporter) • [WELLINGTON, October 1. A hope that the planned city of Rolleston would not [finish up like the Scottish I satellite town of Cumberjnauld was expressed today by Mr C. C. A. McLachlan (Nat., Rakaia). Visiting Glasgow recently, Mr McLachlan had an opportunity of visiting Cumbernauld. Mr McLachlan was appalled at the appearance of twelve-storey blocks of flats standing up “like tombstones” above the green countryside. Cumbernauld was started eighteen years ago, the target population being 70,000. “The population has now reached 40,000,” Mr McLachlan said. “Sir Donald Little, the former Provost of Glasgow, told me the project would not be really viable until the population had reached 60,000. “When I told him of the other country towns we had, he said: ‘Why not build Timaru up?’ Why not double the population of Ashburton?" It seems the Scots have found out the folly of building towns where nothing but countryside existed before.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33654, 2 October 1974, Page 18
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158M.P. against Rolleston Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33654, 2 October 1974, Page 18
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