EAST AND WEST

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 126, 30 May 1928, Page 10

EAST AND WEST

GROWTH OF SUBURBS COMMISSION'S ESTIMATES LOOKING AHEAD An interesting table is included in tho report of the Access Commission to tho City Council showing the population of the various eastern and western suburbs, together with an estimate of tho ultimate population of those suburbs and the years in which those maximum figures are likely to be' reached. In order that the table may bo fitted into the newspaper column it has'been : slightly rearranged. With tho figures below the heading "area built on" are,-1 for each suburb, figures in parentheses showing the numbers of acres still to be built upon, and the years in which maximum populations may be reached are similarly shown under the heading "Ultimate population." . The Commission's figures are: — EASTERN SUBURBS. Area Area Populn- Ultimate Acres, built on. tlon. population. Roscncath 114' 06 (IS) 1,400 2,214 (1945) Hataitai 236 151 (57) 3,050 5,088 (1003) Kllbirnlo SOS 200 (34) 0,500 8,244 (1037) Maranul 230 139 (05) 3,200 5,058 (1940) Miramar 1,470 292 (755) 5,500 20,460 (1949) Seatoun IS2 03 (SO) 1,400 4,230 (1950) Karaka Bay and Worker Bay 140 100 (30) GCO .2,835 (1048) WESTERN SUBURBS. Kelburn 204 184 (20) 3,750 5,148 (1951) Northland wick . 30u 120 (110) 2.030 5,481 (1958) Mitchclltown « , and Highbury 94 24 (70) 630 2,208 (1974) Taltvlllo 26- 10(11) 230 507(1974) Karori .. 1,770 252(1,012)3,410 31,860(1060) Thus, in the opinion of the members of tho Commission, while Karori will .ultimately carry a considerably larger population than Miramar, tho eastern suburbs will between them carry a very much larger population than those to the west, and will, moreover, fill up much more rapidly. ■ ROUTE DISTANCES. Two other tables are of general interest; they show the distance, in chains, from the G.P.O. to Kilbirnie Post Office, on the east, and to the eastern end of the Karori tunnel, on the west, by various routes. The figures, are: — G.P.O. to Kilbinrie, via:— Constable street, 278 chains; Elizabeth street (present tunnel route), 232; Elizabeth street, diagonal, 226; Elizabeth and Queen streets, 225; Brougham avenue and Moxham .avenue, 232; Brougham avenue ajid Tapiri street, 236; Ellice street, 234; Patterson street (the route recommended by tho Commission), 240,-» Collego grounds, 230; Hospital road (no tunnel), 290; Hospital road and Goa street, 280; Hospital road and Mem street, 272 chains. G.P.O. fo Karori tunnel, via:— Mojesworth street, via Lambton quay (present route), 228 chains; Kelburn tramway, 111; Willis street and Glasgow street, 198; Hill' street, via Lambton quay, 186; Bowen street, via Lambton quay, 172; Cable tramway (from Willis street,' a little, below Boulcott street), 139; Norway street via Willis street (one of the routes recommended), 172; Raroaroad, vial Willis street, 194 chains. '