MR. CRAWFORD AT TE ARO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 799, 23 April 1910, Page 6

MR. CRAWFORD AT TE ARO.

Mr. Crawford addressed his twelfth meeting last . evening in St. Peter's schoolroom. In the course of his speech, he insisted that the restoration, as far as possible, of tho beach at Oriental Bay was a , duty owed to the poor children of the To Aro district, who needed a playground, and whose parents could not always find pennies to take them to Lyall Bay or Island Bay. (The children should havo first consideration. (Applause.) The disfigurement of the beach by garbage should have boon prevented by the Harbour Board making and enforcing by-laws against ships throwing refuse overboard at the wharf. . In regard to the , tramways, ho would be in favour of extensions and linking lines, that it could bo shown would pay the city, but he would not be in favour of'any lines being made for the benefit of syndicates, or any lines that would not pay..

' Iα reply to a question, Mr. Crawford said that ho was not in favour of tho City Council starting a fish market, because he did not think it would pay. Tho position was tho same in regard to municipal markets generally. The whole idea of a market was to do away with the middleman, but the produce fousumod in Wellington name from a long (lislnire, and ho did not see how. tlje middleman could be eliminated under such circumstances. .',,.■ 11l reply to another question, Mr. Crawford expressed himself strongly against the proposal to remove the Queen's Statue from its present position to the "Parliamentary grounds or any other, place. .. The meeting. concluded with a vote of thanks and confidence.