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The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. It has been estimated that 50,000 people lined the streets of Christchurch in 1911 for the funeral procession of Mayor Thomas Edward “Tommy” Taylor. “The cortege was perhaps the largest ever seen in Christchurch,”
The Press reported on July 31, 1911.
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Thomas Edward (“Tommy”) Taylor, a popular Christchurch MP and Mayor, who died in office, 1911. Taylor was only 49 when he died and had been mayor for just three months. Born in working-class Lincolnshire, and mostly raised in Addington, Taylor had been an abstinence campaigner and critic of Premier Richard Seddon, as well as a strong advocate for educational and social reform. He was a three-term MP for Christchurch before going into local politics.
The Greenville City Council called an election for a $50 million street improvement bond Tuesday.
As proposed, the cityâs payments toward the bond would mostly be made with the $2 million per year that is normally set aside in each yearâs budget for the cityâs Street Improvement Plan, and therefore would not be a vote for a tax increase, Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Ransom explained at the last two city council meetings.
On Tuesday, Greenville City Manager Summer Spurlock outlined four possible scenarios for how the $50 million might be distributed between collector roads and residential roads. With the conditions of Greenvilleâs roads being a common complaint among residents, each scenario included more attention to residential roads and less to collector roads, when compared to the previous scenario.