A PROGRESSIVE PROGRAMME.

Waipa Post, Volume 47, Issue 3384, 24 October 1933, Page 4

A PROGRESSIVE PROGRAMME.

THE' local Borough Council has taken the first decisive step in what can best be described as a progressive prograxrlme. The preliminary in loanl’aising, the formal consent of the l’atepayers to an application for the precedent consent of the Loans Board, has been asked for by public announcement. It secmis unlikely that any citizen will demur. The provision of a water supply in keeping with pres-ent-day needs is an apparent necessity. Moreover, it is a comimercial proposition even if no heed is paid to its many indirect advantages The original water service was planned twenty years ago, and although some provision was then made in anticipation of future needs, the growth of the borough and the demands as they exist to-day were not in the schem'e of things. The marvel is that the service has for so long been able to meet the demand. The defects and the excess of demand have been all too apparent in recent summers. That a proposal to rectify these defects has widespread endorsement is undoubted.

The other proposal is at the i'equest of a largely-signed petition, and is designed to provide appointments at Albert Park. In that the promoters have, guai-anteed a revenue to meet the recurring annual charges, the loan provision is but a formality, and the Council will undoubtedly have public endorsement. Without direct cost to themselves the ratepayers can, by using the credit resources of the borough, provide yet another of those many public appointments which take a place in the process of town building. The facilities at this public playground will certainly add to the town’s attractions, and for that reason, if for none other, the proposal commends itself. The Council is exceedingly wise at this eax*ly stage in the new era of economic l’econstruction to set about these definite plans for progressive development. It is a welcome departxxre from the days of sloth and depression through which we have passed.