THE BASIN RESERVE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3035, 23 March 1917, Page 6

THE BASIN RESERVE

i'. 'WORK TO BE COMPLETED. Tho following -interesting 'report on - •' tho work being.done at the Basin Reserve'ivas furnished the City Council ■' by tlie Reserves Committee last even- . inc:— <•' . ••. ■■ " •' "Tlio sum of £(|O7 has been spent in .erecting a new fcnce at the Basin Re'iserve, leaving a balance of £185 from 'the amount received from the Carnival ■Committee towards the cost of , this „y '■'•..(work.•' As this .work has necessitated /' 't he expenditure of a considerable sum ■ ' (of money in preparation work, amounting to £325 75.. 6d.;\which isintended •"•'(to eventually .improve the street?, round , Ithe Basin Reserve, and tho City Enbineer: reports that a further sum of '£600 will he-required -for-the ccinple- :.' Itidn. of .the whole scheme including the . .; irenewal' of the fenceat the nortnIwestern side (along Bucklei Street, the • (present fence is in a most dilapidated .condition), tho committee have to rc(Oommend be granted" to ~ : (the City Engineer to complete the !work at the above estimated cost; and ithat provision -be made oninext year's i ..-Estimates, 'for the required, money. The . jold existing wooden fence is to be re- • • jmoved and re-erected at Hutchison lEoad Resecve, and at such other City jieserves as the . City Engineer considers necessary; also the strip outside of (the.new.fence, as shown, on the City . ■ "Engineer's plan, is to be. planted hy Ithe superintendent of reserves during Hhe forthcoming: season.'" •p The recommendation was agreed to. . ; - In order that the work may be fa- ••.•-.;• militated, the Reserves Committee pro- : ;. fbose that the Basin Reserve be not let to sports bodies,during the winter - ■ imonths. . ■ - '"• . Tlie Molesworth fountain at the re-- , Serve has beeii ( successfully lowered to * | . level. The work was-accom- . . ' iplished without the slightest, damage •being done to the structure.