MIRAMAR

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10688, 7 September 1920, Page 4

MIRAMAR

No more suggestive gathering has been held in Wellington than that which was assembled to celebrate the entry of the Miramar Borough into the city of Greater Wellington. The suggestion i« of. tho future greatness of the city. .Miramar stands on a site fit for a great city. • All the facilities "are'"there l —for "reading, light, water, gas, transport, space. Thirty-five years ago it was, so to speak, colonised as a suburb. During the interval the suburb has become a borough, working up all the facilities with enterprising, farseeing vigour. Had the latter quality been greater at a certain critical moment,* the progress of tho place would have been greater, and its association with Wellington far more valuable But tho foresight", fortunately, has improved since then, and tho suburb has been merged. It? best law for the future is the law of co-operation. As ono of the epoakejs put it at tho gathering, the time has come for team work, and the teams are ready. Their co-operation is the acceptance of the usefulness of good representative team Work in the public affairs of mankind The progress' of thei Dominion has brought the principlo well to tho front, and there is no doubt that the last adoption of it will prove ae valuable as any of its predecessors. The whole history of the place is linked together by tho proofs of the" good vision which has led the burgesses to the utilisation of the co-operative principle. As the man who pioneered there thirty-fivo years ago with seeds and plants, so the mon of to-day who have brought the pioneered thing into the greater city. Ae he saw how the place mustgrow, bo they have seen how greatly its addition to the city will advantage tho city by advancing itself. The dividing ridge is the mountain of this* vision. The vision, looking favourably on the hummocks and coarse grass of the isthmus, produced Miramar. The hummocks and gras6 having given place to houfies and .streets have produced the merger into Greater Wellington. From that dividing ridge there is yet another vision. The dullest eye sweeping the contours eastward must -see the strongest reason for voting the loan proposals intact.