THE WILSON STREET PLANTATION
To the (Editor
Sir, —From information I have gathered that tine decision of the Council to destroy one of the best breakwinds the town posseses -was only carried on the deliberative vote of the Mayor. It is currently rumoured at is the intention of certain parties to endeavour to obtain a site for (racing stables in the block. 'Why the Council should seek to destroy this plantation that protects Wilson Street from the South-west and also protects the gas site from the Westerly gales, is beyond the ordinary -intelligence of most ratepayers, especially when it i» considered that the Council have a short distance further on a large numbJfc of sections unlet. Have the rumoured racing stables anything to do with the haste tihalt (has been displayed? It must b© remembered that the plan as first proposed by the Mayor contemplated cutting down the whole 'block, and it was only when Cr. Liffittpn and ethers offered ebrenuous opposition to such action that a- section of tihe Council consented to modify the
proposal. I, for one, hope the Council 'will yet see its way to preserve this useful plantation.—l am, etc., RATEPAYER.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12716, 30 January 1906, Page 7
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195THE WILSON STREET PLANTATION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12716, 30 January 1906, Page 7
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