DOMAINS BOARD.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 7

DOMAINS BOARD.

MONTHLY MBETING. # < \ The Chrtetchvjreh Domains Board-met yesterday afternoon. iPieMnt: Messrs George,-Harper (ohairfcsih), P. o«orge, B. B. Owen, S. Hi Eagle* t Kitson, A. H. Slkknbehall, W. T. Poster, M. E. Lyons, and the Jton. D. Buddo. , ; '' , On behalf of the Woolstop and Muni- ' cipal Bands, Mr 8.8. Heau wrote thankr ing the Board for allowing the .use of , theiarehery laws in the "Botanic .Gardens j v on mentioned, and also allowing collections to, sbe' made. On .February .Ist 3s 7jd was collected, aad on I'ebruarv Btli £6l 13s 9d; <the'last-mentioned amount going, tp- the Earthquake _ The writes also asked thait/the bands'' "thanks , "be James .Young <;Wo hisfstaff tor assistance given, on'both-occasions. T,« } t , / 4t Gardens.aod%Parks. • , ■ ■ Mr George, otttbehalf of the-Gardens ] and Parks;-; Committee, reported:—The , ■ JB^leyiGolf^tib^hfdiwritten askings if. . the Board would sanction the enclosing -of six puttingvgrfeens. in Hagley Park for a few weeks, and it was reepmmended t that the request be granted. 1 . * ■ The qommittee had inspected the, area recently taken oyer , from ; the ; North • Canterbury Acdimitifijjuon Society, where, the curatpr explained. , very fully' what: hadC been doijie v . ?pd . his plains, for the laying put in--the * immediate future. His' scheme w*s approved by i the committee, members ex- . pressing satisfactionvwith the great im- . provement already,shown in the area. Uje committee viewed the * paobage patch" iix the Hospital grounds, *&& &. commended that the Hospital Board be . notified that the Domains Board would take possession of the "cabbage patch i on June Ist, 1931. - , ... w The committee had gone, to the Nortn Hagley PaJk, where it inspected a lowlying site in the golf links where it to aJrrang&d for the curator to rem-edv-the difficulty. „ " „ _ - y The chairman of the Board, Mr George Harper, had drawn attention to the encroachment of the grass on the pedestrian paths, and the curator stated that it was his-intention, ag sooiT a« time would peTmit r to remove it. ; Regarding the unsightly iron fence near lie "cabbage patch," Mr said that Mr Tonng and he had to see the chairman of the Board as to arrangements- for its re-, moval, but they had not yet been able to see him. . - ' ; 1 - The Teport was adopted.' ,-r ri