Beautifying Society Makes Helpful Suggestions

Chronicle (Levin), 3 May 1949, Page 4

Beautifying Society Makes Helpful Suggestions

Some suggestions for the improve ment of the bprough were submiuied to the Levin ? Borough CoUncL's mebting last nighu in flve letfcers . from the . Levin ahd Dis.rict v Beautifying Society, ahe first offered co-operation •n . furthering the plans for uiie fceautification of the new Playford- Park and this was received with thanks, the council .Suating chat it would be pleased to -xvaii itself of the- off er. in affother letter, the society re.ommended that the main planling ceremony for Arbor Day this year ce in the Levin Park Domain in re- > ; placing certaitf trees which had not grown as we~i as was1 expected. This was agreed to by the council. £rie Maycr, Mr. H. B. Burdekin, suggested ihat :pepper trees might oe considered, as they hM beautiful foliage, ' provided gOod shade and would grow well in Levin. The Sobiety also recommended that the area of ground on the western section oi Oxford Street, betweeh Devon and York Streets, be property levelled off and sown -in grass sO that it could be easi y maintained and kept tidy. • The Mayor said that tnis was- indeed an unsightly approach to the town and for thac reasoh Shou'd be atr tended to by the council. as a". matter Oi eivic pride. Cr; j. Miller drew the council's a'tention. to an untidy strip further down Oxford Street. "If- the co'uhcil is going o't have a cha,in and a haif of eivic pride, then let - . .t have three chains of civic pride," he said. • , . • There were other parts of the borough requir-ing more urgent: at- ; tention and the overseer , could .not ! get round them all just now,. -said 1 the Mayor when recommending t that consideration be giyen",mean- ; while to .he one area suggested by ! the society. „ ^ '■ Cr. W. Telford further suggestl ed that later phoenix palms could - perhaps be plahted there, giving a 1 more beautiful effect to the town's i entrance. The matter was then

referred to the works committee. ^ A suggestion that the counCil COhsult with the Main Highways Board and the Horowhenua COUhty Council for the joint purchase of a ssction at the corner of Ihe main south road and Beach Road, at the Other entrance to the town, and that the road be re-aligned came from the society. The society offered its services towards beautifying the area if it was purchased. The council decided to take the matter up, stating that the' suggestion had merit. Cr. Sweetzer Said that the move would be a wise one, as it would forestall any attempt fft a private purchase :and perhaps the erection -of a building which would then tend to form. a on a very important highway. ' '