Council Decides To Beautify Triangle Reserve

Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1948, Page 4

Council Decides To Beautify Triangle Reserve

- — - - ---- - •- - ■- A" decision ' that the triangle reserve opposite the PUblic Gardens, in Cambridge Street, should ultimately he beautifie'd in preference to makih'g it a parkih'g 'atea for motor-vehicles was' reached at a meeting of . the Levin .-Boroiigh Council oh Monday night. The triangle was purChased some 20 years a'go fhr i-200, the Levin; and District' Beautif.ying Society contributing about £85 of, this amount. Wha't it should be used for has been under discussioh for: some time. At the Tanuafy, meety ing of the council some councillorsi voiCed the. opihion that it should; be turned .into a vehi'cle park and1 the matter was teferred "to "the; works committee to co'nsider fully.S The committee referred i't back 'toMonday night's meeting "for di'scussion and a decision. Cr. D. j. S'weetzer wondered .whether it could be "combined as a, "beauty spot and parking area. He' said he thought the council had a moral obligation to the Beautifying Society to develop it as a beauty spot.

It was most necessary to. have furthem. parking space handy to the to'wh, commented 'Cr. W. Tel-' ■ ford. Be thought it would be a mistake for "the council to give the area over to a "ross' garden." The Mayor, Mr. «H. B. Burdekin, said * there were several streets within two minutes walk of the: 'town which would soon be completed. They would provide much more parking space 'than would be a'vailable in the triangle. "We have more than enough parking space arouhd the town for .the next 50 years," remarked Cr. F. 'D. Chainey. The rouncil then reached the decision stated,,