DUNEDIN MOVING UP.

Evening Star, Issue 14636, 4 August 1911, Page 9

DUNEDIN MOVING UP.

Dun-din ''-; •determined net to sit idle while t,lulwaits or Auckland and Wellington iwguu about harbor supremacy and the pa-im of conmorciai premiership. Dunedin has been working modestly, steadily put I in:.' money in the bank. It in a city oi splendid 'tradition?, with enduring moiiomi'iHu to the publie-spiritedne;w of 10any £Oud citizens who worked well for their um'ii and New Zealand. Dnnedin has a reputation for solidity. It escaped, perhaps, with ieis sorrow than any other one oi' the sister cities during' the depression of two years ago. Yet, somehow, Dunedin'« leading citizens are feeling a little uneasy to-da}-, a little "out of it," politically and otherwise. They havo no tear for DuuedinVi stability, but they wish to quicken the social, industrial, and population pace. I'hoy wiwh to have New Zeaiaiid stron»'ly reminded that it has a J)unedin as well as an Auckland. fc>o these inlands are being introduced to a Duncdin Hundred Thousand League, whoso name proclainiK the ideai of a large fillip to the- population. The. bagpipes are being inilatsd for a skirl to thrili this countiy from, end to end. This threat may come as a shock to outsiders long accustomed to the quiet working habits of Dunedin, which declines to get excited, except when non-Dunedin pcoplo attack the? Ota-cro Central railway scheme. The league will watch. Dunedin's deiences, and prepare plans for attacking the world's ignorance of Dunedin's status and prospects. The object of t.ho new organisation is to keep watch and ward for Dunedin. from every <:ood viewpoint, and we are glad to see* tliis evidence of a spirit of vigor. Dunedin may have been stimulated by the examples of "other towna. in other hinds, c-jmmpjes to which the ' Post' roferred in a- recent article on. 'The Civic Spirit.' Dunedin people should be better citizens and batter New Zealanders for this movement, if it does not go along a narrow rut to the goal oi '"grab." Dunedin's hiitory lather banishes the suspicion, that tho Hundred Thousand League will be. obsessed by petty '&*&'