BIGGER MARTON ADVOCATED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 111, 14 May 1941, Page 4

BIGGER MARTON ADVOCATED

Sir.—Please allow me space in your paper to state my opinion on this subject. Let me ask this question of the ratepayers: If the Park is going to make the town progress, the council should buy the land and cut it up into sections. You would get sixteen sections and the rates would be 30s per section. This would increase the rates by £24 to the borough and, by increasing the popujation, there would be extra money spent in the town. Continue Hair Street right through Calico Line and form a new street from the site of the hotel down to the Tutaenui Stream, as far as Humphreys Street. Twenty families could live within six minutes’ walk from the post office by extending Humphrey Street from Lower High Street. Let the Borough Council do the work and put the expenses on each section. There is plenty of room fto expand Marton. In fact, in my opinion, 1 would cut Henderson’s Line out of the borough and make Mill Street the boundary and take over Bredin’s Line to Nga Tawa Road, consolidating the borough and making it more compact and if that was done Marton would progress.—l am, etc.,

W. M. ARCHIBALD. Marton. May 13.