DOMAINS BOARD.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19174, 3 December 1927, Page 9

DOMAINS BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. The Domains Board met yesterday, when there were present:—Mcsrs G. Harper (chairman), McGregor, R. Wright, J. F. Scott, F. George. H. Kitson, E. F. Stead, W. H. Winsor, and H. J. Beswick. Air C. E. Foweiaker. lecturer in charge of the Forestry School at Canterburv College, wrote stating that Mr F." W. Robinson, lecturer on surveyin", was submitting a plan of the public' Gardens made by his students showing beds, buildings, paths and boundaries. Mr Robinson suggested that the Board should have the plan lithographed. It would be useful to students of the Forestry ■ School for marking the positions of trees and shrubs. The school would defray halt the .-ost of the lithoeraph it it received half the number ot copies lithographed. . +],.,„ u. The offer was accepted with tliank> and it was decided to sucgest that similnr plans of the parks be also prePa Tho report of the Gardens Committer which was adopted, recommended that the rock earden bo extended in tie direction of the river and that two large eum trees on the r.rer bank, one near the Curator's house and anoXr aW fifty yards further up the river, should be taken down owing to their unsatisfactory condition.