CITY IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4336, 20 April 1901, Page 4

CITY IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES

Tito citizens of Wellington arc to bo warmly congratulated . upon' having, by convincing majorities • : at yesterday’s polls/ recorded their approval*. of the three schemes of t-ity .' improvement upon which, their'.judgment- was invited. There is ovidciitly some doubt in people's minds ;as, to the-Soundness of one of the proJ'cets—that, dealing rwifh the woochnaving of the streets—-aiid tho mtrrow, majority reyorded for it should have the-effect of causing-the Corporation to carefully reconsider tjie matter with a- view to’.'finding’ .whether ’asphait paving "would 'not 'bo preferable. The most emphatic endorsement' lias hoeu given to the tramways' conversion and extension scheme—-showing . that . the people are fully, a;ive, to the urgent .necessity of the service being improved. It does not, of course, follow ihat the proposals formulated- .is to route, and as to double lines.through the narrowest streets/ have .ohiaipccL .sanction. These arc points tluit will have to. be fought out, and it..;zk to bo hoped they, will be' finally determined only after the fullest inquiry Tins taken place and the best expert advice, has been .obtained. The proposal for .the erection .of a City Brill, wo tiro'glad also to find endorsed a$ .the , polls; This poll, has happened opportunely, for, tiro • electors have now in' their/hands,tiie : decision as to the.men to be entrusted with the carrying-out .of these projects. Keeping in view the -Willis strept' compensation' scandal and the •flagrant' disregard of the public weal- sho.)Y4i o^y s tJi,(? fityjCei.unoil in the matter of the building permit to Councillor -McGill, : the; burgesses must seriously weigh; the matter, and ‘ . shy whether the men gililty of stick grave lapses from duty can safely he.-entrust-ed with the spending :of the largo sums of money and the carrying out of the important works Just authorised. The necessity for a preponderance of ‘‘new blood ” in the Council is made more than ever evident by the result of 1 lie poll of yesterday.