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Otago Witness, Issue 3614, 19 June 1923, Page 27

To-day the population of Palmerston North was 18,000. but he made hold enough to say that within a few years the population would have grown to 25,000, remarked Mr ,T. A. Nash. M.P., at a conversazione given in recognition of his long services as Slayor. The geographical position of Palmerston North assured this, and the potentialities of the district would eventually see Palmerston North ihe Christchurch of the North Island. The use of common iron chain ladder fire escapes at hotels was condemned by Sergeant Dale at a meeting of the Stratford Licensing Committee (says the Stratford Post). Everyone wag net an acrobat that he would use such an escape, the sergeant said, and ihe ladders were death traps, they were dangerous, and should be condemned from one end of the dominion to the other.