THE CITY BEAUTIFUL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1350, 30 January 1912, Page 4

THE CITY BEAUTIFUL.

WHEN IS THE COUNCIL TO MOVE. A correspondent writes—"During the past year there has been a great deal said about the beautifying of tho city and town planning, but though tho councillors, and tho public, are quite at one in tho opinion that something should be done to improve tho drabness of our city, nobody does anything: words aro cheap—but actions speak loudest. A small plot of hard gTey earth has been left for some purpose or other in front of the General Post Office. I would suggest that .this bo the starting pointeven if it only means a few dray-loads of soil and a bag of grass-seed. A little green patch with, perhaps, a few shrubs (not a jumble like one sees in tho Public Library plantation) would be an oasis in. a wilderness of wood-blocks. The idea is new to Wellington, but there are such grass plots in the centre of Circular Quay, Sydney, and in some of the Melbourne streets, where the traUic is ten times as great as in the Post Office Triangle. I would also suggest that another plot bo made in Clyde Quay, near the City Hotel, and something of tho sort in tho centre of Oriental Buy. There is one reserve already in the bay, but it is niado hideous and at times disgusting by an erection which should never have keen placed there. There are other places that could be niado and that quicklv, ■ and at a companrnvsly small cost, if tho council would wake up to tho fact that Wellinjjton is being left behind by the other cities."