THE UNRECLAIMED LAND.
-.,.-. TO THE EDITOR, Sib,—A lithographed plan of the Thomdon reclamation is published, and no one can look at it without regretting that it is in the power of the Provincial Government to spoil the original plan of the city. The whole thing is a blunder. No. 1 is offering it for sale at all, until it is reclaimed and ready to put into the market in the legitimate way. Blunder No. 2is that Dr. Featherston's original plan is altered. Instead of carrying on Custom-house-quay, which is a continuation of Willis-street, and carryingon Feather-ston-street parallel with it as originally intended, a deviation is made. Custom-house-quay is cut short at Mr. Mill's foundry, and Featherston-street is altered from its originally intended straight line and terminates abruptly, forming an angle at "Webb-street. Blunder No. 3 is that the streets are not, as originally intended by Dr. Featherston, laid off parallel to "Waring-Taylor, Johnston, Brandon, Panama, and Grey-streets, which are the streets comprising the present reclaimed land.—lam, &c, Argus. [The greatest blunder of all is to sell an inch of it. —Ed. N.Z.T.]
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4263, 18 November 1874, Page 2
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182THE UNRECLAIMED LAND. New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4263, 18 November 1874, Page 2
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