COMMUNITY SHOPPING
NAPIER EXAMPLE. PEAISED BY ME MAW-SON. - (Special to “Northern' Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, This Day. Napier’s community shopping centre was referred to in terms of high praise by Mr J. W. Mawaon, •director of town planning, during the hearing of an appeal by the Auckland Transport Board against the Auckland City Council’s refusal of a permit for the disposal of the old Ponsouby tram barn site for business purposes. “Down at Napier they have a practical lesson in town planning which is a revelation,” eaid Mr Mawson, “They have one of the linest things I have seen in any town—the creation of a community shopping centre. The people are finding it a tremendous convenience, aud when the time conics to dispose of the temporary buildings there will be au outcry, because they have the whole of the present shopping facilities of Napier concentrated in a email area at the junction of the main roads. It is one of the linest lessons in practical town planning I have ever conic across in my life.”
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Northern Advocate, 9 April 1931, Page 3
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