NORTHLAND NEEDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 4

NORTHLAND NEEDS

PROGRESS ASSOCIATION

FORMED

A decision to ' form a Northland Progress Association was made last night by a meeting of seventeen•■. residents of Northland, over whom Mr. J. O'Connor, the convener of the meeting,, presided. ..The object of the association is to further the interests of the suburb, which was described as one of Wellington's "Cinderella" districts, a position it had reached, it was admitted, largely because of the apathy of its residents. - i The subscription to the new association was fixed at 2s, 6d a year, and most of those pi-esent at the meeting j agreed to participate in a canvass of j the district in an endeavour to increase! the membership. Forty-five people! had agreed to join the association before the meeting, it - was stated. A better tram service, an extension of the tram line to the top of the hill, and greater* telephone facilities will be some of the immediate 'objects to which the kssdciatiOrl Will-.direct attention. ■ j : : . ■"'.' ;. ;- •■..;". ■*. ■._ . Mr. O'Connor and other speakers, deplored the fact that the Ratepayers' Association formerly flourishing in the district had vanished. The provision of a tram and bus service and the acquisition of Western Park were some of the major achievements of the old association. After the lapse of that association there was no. official representation of Northland, and the City Council could not be castigated; for paying little attention to a suburb in which there was no representative body of opinion. Speakers appealed for active support for the new association. "The only time we ever got a decent attendance' was when/we put on \ a free supper," said Mr. S. E. Lambert, in reference to the apathy which hacl killed the previous association-.