WELL BOOMED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 91, 16 April 1908, Page 4

WELL BOOMED.

Invercargill is a prosperous town, and its inhabitants a)-e no doubt extremely gratified that its prosperity is being so well advertised. Never has a town enjoyed so much publicity. Far and-wide is being spread the pleasmg intelligence that the value of property has increased, its Building bociety and life insurance business is growing^ its gas and water revenue is greater, and m many other respects tne solid advancement of the southern town is noteworthy? An this is most gratifying Still more gratifying is 11 oyer *te Dominion very Pi™ \t Sam£ can be told. New Plymouth, Feilding, Dannevirke Palmerston North,' Napier, Saru' and dozens of other places/ not iorgettmg Blenheim, are in the same happy circumstances. They are all shanngmthe general prosperity of the Dominion, and Invercargill is by no means singular in this resject. But advanri 18 f°^ **& the Uni^ue Si;T^ g + u O- hay lecturers proclaiming their progress from every SwT m; Intl^ tley'are at a serious disadvantage. They must perforce reK'n^l6^6^' sting content with the undoubted evidences of their prosperity, while one town alone of all their number obtains all the kudos. Invercargill has managed things very weU to be so greatly boomed. There must be some excellent stage managers down that way, and the pity that some of the other towns of New XToT>f eTr hJe these towns must re&t m hope. They are at present living unSJl^c^v^e^ S^/^ WndSSy, ft! fte w eil + force, d *° it ifft^' to 'grant thlt it is there 'm spite of license."