_The Evening Post_, 8 June 1923:
CITY DEVELOPMENT
TE ARO THE BODY OF THE
OCTOPUS.
An address on the arterial #roads of #Wellington was given at the monthly luncheon of the Te Aro Advancement Association at Dustin’s rooms yesterday by the Acting-City Engineer, Mr. A. J. #Paterson. Mr. A. George presided over a large attendance of members.
Mr. Paterson gave an interesting outline of the main roads in Wellington, and referred to the great necessity of handling the business population in the quickest possible time.… in time the Te Aro district would be the centre of industry. Te Aro would be the body of the octopus, and all the roads to the outlying portions of the city would branch off from that body. Mistakes, serious mistakes, had been made in the past in laying out the streets of Wellington, and these mistakes had to be rectified now. One question… was whether traffic development should precede or succeed building development. The speaker also referred to the very fine building lands in the western part of the city. There was more room in #Karori and the surrounding districts for habitation purposes than in any of the Eastern suburbs.…
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_The Evening Post_, 6 May 1924:
             SCHOOL HOURS
  WET WEATHER REGULATIONS
  Protests against the amended #regulations of the Education Department governing the present practice of closing #schools at 1 p.m. on wet days were passed at the householders’ meetings at Brooklyn, Petone, and Eastern Hutt last evening.… a school day must consist of at least four hours, two in the forenoon and two in the afternoon, and that, accordingly children must be marked as absent on wet afternoons, did not meet with the approval of the Te Aro School Committee.
  The retiring chairman, Mr. L. Hennessey, reported… that the committee had, by formal resolution, instructed the headmaster not to bring children back to school on very wet afternoons, since… children’s health should not be so risked by having them sitting down for two hours in wet clothes. How the four hundred half days insisted upon by the Department could be made up he did not know.
  The headmaster, Mr. A. M‘Kenzie, pointed out that another regulation provided that there must be an interval of at least one hour between morning and afternoon school work; so that the committee, escaping one prong, had been caught on the other.
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