TOWN PLANNING FOR PEMBROKE

Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 9

TOWN PLANNING FOR PEMBROKE

(From Our Cromwell Correspondent). The residents of Pembroke are very much, alive to the potentialities as a tourist resort of the picturesquely situated township at Lake Wanaka. _ The. Wanaka Progress League had written the Lake County Council urging that many of the ratepayers had felt that a re-planning of the township was desirable before further building made such a step too expensive to be practicable. In a report to the Under-Secretary of the Lands and Survey Department the Surveyor-General stated that there was no local body other than the Lake County Council in a position to deal with the proposal, nor was the population sufficient to allow of a town district being constituted under the present legislation. Some such local authority would, it was believed, be necessary to carry out any such scheme, say, the powers of a town_ board would be all that would be required. The league in its letter stated that no detailed plan had been drawn up, but the SurveyorGeneral in his report indicated that the present plan of the township was capable of very great improvement. The Wanaka Progress League was not desirous, at any rate for the present, of seeking to form a town board, and without the formation of that body it fell to the County. Council to take the necessary steps to further the project. _ (A list of the ratepayers who had definitely expressed themselves jn favour of the project was enclosed.) Under the Town Planning Act it was coippetent for the local authority to have a plan prepared and submitted to the ratepayers for their approval. In the meantime the Lands Department had held up the sale, of any more Crown land in Pembroke in order that any further difficulties might be obviated as much as possible. The Lake County Council at its meeting decided that the Wanaka Progress League be written to suggesting that the league should go into the matter more fully and forward the council all the information bearing upon the position that the league was able to assemble!