THE CAPITAL CITY
“SUPER-CENTRALISED DURING WAR,” SAYS DR. THACKER.
We want our fair share of railway construction in the South Island, stat ed I>r. Thacker (Christchurch East) in, the House of' Representatives yesterday; for one thing so that we can get our coal, timber, and produce from the West Coast to the East, hut this centralised city ,of Wellington doesn’t want that. Wellington, ho added, was “Super-Centralised*’ .during the war (Laughter.) Wellington made mpney out of it because Colonel Gibbon —he was glad he had gone Home —(laughter) —would not allow the Minister for Defenco and his advisors to have local camps, so that the'relatives of our soldiers were crowded into un healthy lodgings in Wellington, to the glorification of the bank-books of the people hero. (Laughter.)
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10632, 3 July 1920, Page 7
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127THE CAPITAL CITY New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10632, 3 July 1920, Page 7
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