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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 102, 9 May 1901, Page 4

Man’s greed, even in and around Auckland, prompts him to begrudge his tenants room to swing the metaphorical cat, and he likes to plant a series of houses where one only should stand. There is time in the future for this fair city of ours to grow towards the stars, and for its environs to compete with it in sky-scrapers. But, at present, let us extend laterally or horizontally, any way but perpendicularly. There should be no question of crowding in this ‘large isle with so small a population. There is plenty of elbow-room if w-e are permitted to use it. If the Government has time to think of small things, we wonder if it will give a passing thought to room next session? To talk of crowds in New Zealand and ‘ housing the multitude ' sounds farcical, but apparently the necessity has arisen for the outspreading of the population. Let it be unnecessary for the people to climb stairs to their numbered flats, and make it possible to retain in imagination, at least, the fact that ‘ an Englishman’s home is liis castle, and that a flat can never be either ‘a man’s castlej’ or ‘ home, sweet home.’— Observer,