MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9123, 2 July 1891, Page 17 (Supplement)

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.

New Plymouth is a municipality, and the Borough comprises an area of 850 acres. There are about a thousand dwellings, and a population of over 4000 inhabitants. The rateable value is about £26,000. His Worship James Bellringer is Mayor; the Councillors being A. C. Fookes, W.T. Small, E. Dockrill, W. Cottier, P. P. Corkill, R. Cock, A. Goldwater, W. A. Collis, Abner King. HOTELS AND BOARDING-HOUSES. In New Ptytnouth there are several good hotels and boarding-houses. The Criterion Hotel (Mr W. Cottier), is perhaps the most central ; the Imperial Hotel (Mr R. R. Hutcheson) is at the corner of Devon and Currie-street3 ; the Taranaki Hotel (Mi G. Rhind) is in Brougham-street, opposite the Town Hall ; the Red House Hotel (Mr Horatio Hammond) is at the corner of Devon and Gover streets ; the Terminus Hotel (Mr G. Tisch) is near the railway station; and the White Hart Hotel, opposite the Government Buildings. The chief boarding-houses are — Sarnia House, kept by Mrs Collia ; Weale's Orient boarding-house; tho Egmont board-

inhabitants, or more. The scenery of tho river and its banks, both above and below the waterworks, is pretty. The river rushes on over the boulders and rocks, dashing its spray up to meet the flowing fronds of the punga and other graceful ferns and flowers ; and further up the banks are the tree ferns and a largo variety of trees and shruba, all uniting to add to the loveliness of the whole ecene. Close to the waterworks, on the river flat, is about an acre of largo native trees — tawa, lance, &c. — under the shade of which numerous picnic parties are held in the summer time. No visitors to New Plymouth should fail to visit the waterworks.