FOR THE TOWN BELT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1580, 25 October 1912, Page 4

FOR THE TOWN BELT.

REGULAR WORKING STAFF RECOMMENDED.

The City Reserves Committee will shortly submit proposals to the City Council for the future care and improvement of the Town Belt. Tho city engineer (Sir, W. H. Morton) and the superintendent of reserves (Air. G. F. G'.cn) wero asked some time ago to report oil the matter, and their news, separately stated, were considered by the Reserves Committoo yesterday afternoon. Bolh officers agree that a permanent staff should bo employed. Mr. Morton thinks that a foreman, possessed of an adequate technical knowledge of tho trees to be planted, and assisted by nbout three men, would find profitable occupation all the year round in fencing work, gorse-grubbing, treoplauting. construction of tracks, preparation of tho ground, etc. "Those briefly." he says, are the lines on which I think the work should be proceeded with, instead of the spasmodio manner in which it has been attempted iu the past to deal with small areas. Particularly,' I would draw attention to tho necessity of having some scheme prepared by which the Belt would bo most profitably used, and also haviiiß in view tho possibility of any portion of the Belt boing at any time required ot likelv to bo disturbed in connection with other operations such as rond constructiciv etc. '"'lie number of men employed should be kept down to tho lowest possibly limit consistent with tho work required to Iμ dono during the year." Mr, Glon's suggestions do net vary materially from lho?e of the city Oncinoer. Ho supßOsts a Inr«r utaff-a foreman and six men. The sections which are to remain «i crass for grazing purposes should, ho thinks, be divided into smaller areas, ivs the locoes would tUou be able to give them hotter Attention. Nearly all the fences upon Hie Town Belt nre in (i w? bad condition, lie aims, mill in some parts Uiey have disappeared altogether.