PUSHING OUT EASTWARD

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2217, 1 August 1914, Page 6

PUSHING OUT EASTWARD

CITY'S BUSINESS 'AEEA.

Twenty years ago Courtenar Haoe • was little more than-a residential street; i twelve years ago it- -was semi- . residential. After 'that came the electric tramways, aiid the Kilbirnie tunnel, which factors have pushed'the maui thoroughfare eastward into a foremosiplace among the growing business thoroughfares. The remark is apropos of the demolition, now proceeding, or i two old wooden iesidences adjoining the Congregational.Church (a property■ that "is also in the market). Theses™ , being pulled down to permit of modern, business premises being erected for the . United Friendly Societies , Pharmacy.; With these old houses out of the way, only two purely residential houses -remain in CourtenayPlac*, where, within easy memory, cottages boasted their front gardens and plots of grass.... Another forward'-movement in; tnie. locality may be anticipated early next year. The Harbour Board's block of' newly reclaimed'land, extending from the foot of Taranaki Street-on the west to Clyde Quay on the , east, will be , placed on the market in suitable streets.'. This block will be traversed from-eaet to west by a' continuation of' Cable v' Street, and there will be'- streets 'run--''. : ing at right angles'in a lino witib. • Blair, ■ Allon, and Tory Streets, opposite which > of each ; thoroughfares on the harbour front is—some time in the future—to '.-'. be erected substantial wharves by tho '. board.. Another factor will be'the plaoing on the market of a large portionof the extensive block of land now Joccu-,' ■. pied by the Wellington Gas Company, ; whose gas-manufacturing plant'has almost wholly been transferred to Mira- ; . mar. With such areas available for business premises at the eastern side of.the city, trade should be more in-".'. clinod than ever to trend towards Cour« *-°.iiay Place'. ■. ' '■■'.. :