CITIES AND THEIR NEEDS.
The needs of cities vary not only according to their populations, but according to their growtha consideration to which due weight should be given by Mr. Myers before deciding upon the many pressing railway questions being brought under his notice. At the . end of last month the estimated populations of the four New Zealand centres were: . . Auckland ... ... ... ... 104,728 Christchurch ... ... 82,004 Wellington ... ... ... ... 71,427 Dunedin ... 65,690 This official estimate shows clearly that Auckland is not only by far the largest - city in the Dominion, but that it is growing at a more rapid rate than the other metropolitan centres. Auckland . and Wellington are not only large and growing places, whose joint populations will.
probably exceed" 200,000 before the closo of 1012, but each city, is the centre of large and thriving and growing ■- districts. Years ' ago when neither the urban nor the provincial' importance justified the development twice-daily : express service was established between Christchurch and Dunedin, this serving cities much smaller in population and districts much inferior in importance than are our Northern centres and provinces to-day. The Dominion loses hundreds of thousands of pounds yearly on the Southern lines and clears hundreds of thousands of pounds yearly on the Northern lines—yet we only have a single daily express between Auckland and Wellington. Such extraordinary and most iniquitous differences in the consideration accorded to the two islands have become a grave and notorious scandal, and have discredited the Administration 'in the North. We cannot consider any Department as properly reconstituted unless Auckland and the North Island henceforward receive "their duesof which dues a second daily express between Auckland and Wellington is obviously a necefesary instalment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14972, 20 April 1912, Page 6
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