25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 150, 21 March 1933, Page 6

25 YEARS AGO

Big Miramar Undertaking (From “The Dominion,” Mar. 20, 1008.) People who journey to and from Miramar by tram have begun to notice sundry men, drays, and horses at worn excavating and carting soil at a spot close under the hills which shut in the Miramar Flat on the western side. These operations mark the beginning of the construction of the new manufacturing works for the Wellington Gas Company, Limited. The company as is well known, has long been cramped for space at its existing works at Courtenay Place, and the purchase of land at Miramar for the location of large works seemed the best solution of the difficulty. The cost of the new works will approximate the sum of £106.000. • * ♦ I The crew of the Nimrod, it is stated, have been anything but contented since Captain England resigned his position, and it was freely rumoured in Lyttelton yesterday that several of the meu who accompanied him to the Antarctic regions intended to resign. A. F. Wilding won the South of France tennis championship, beating Ritchie by 3 sets to love.

Is it the policy of the Government to use the frontages of railway stations for the purposes of advertising hoardings? Judging by Wellington's noble station at Thorndon Quay, one would easily conclude that the persons responsible were strangers to all aesthetic decency, for the front elevation is plastered with all manner of advertisements —brandy and whisky advertisements for preference—from end to end. Why the front of railway stations should be used in this manner is difficult to imagine, and if it is held to be a legitimate means of raising revenue, why not arrange to let advertising space on the front of Government Buildings, the Customhouse. and other Governmental structures in the city? It is making an invidious distinction to allow advertising on some, and not on other, public buildings.