BOTANICAL GARDENS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 42, 13 November 1926, Page 8

BOTANICAL GARDENS

NO PLAN. FOR ROAD ■ k • Tn reply to * question by Councillor J. Glover, the Mayor (Mr; C. .J. B. Norwood)' stated on Thursday that no plan for 'a road through the Botanical Gardens' existed. All that the council possessed in this regard was a report by Mr. Morton, late city engineer. A letter was received from Mr. E. C. Jack, secretary of the City Reserves Protection Society, forwarding a copy of a resolution passed at the inaugural meeting of the society on Monday night, requesting that plans and details be made available regarding, a proposed road through the Botanical Gardens from the Glen to Glenmore Road. Councillors declared that no such plan existed. . Councillor R. Semple said that he and other councillors had seen a rough plan which had been prepared in the hands of Mr. D. Scott, of the city engineer’s staff. . ' „ Councillor M. F. Luckie: How old was this plan? The Mayor repeated that no plan existed of any such road through the gardens. All that . the council had was a rough contour sketch, and he suggested that Mr. .Jack should be informed that this could be inspected at the city engineer’s office. Councillor H. D. Bennett said that the late city engineer had. prepared a sketch plan to show a road scheme to be worked to, but the works committee had never even discussed it. This making of a mountain out of a molehill had gone too far altogether., •He moved that the City Reserves Protection Society be informed that the only plan which the City Council- pos:sessed was a rough contour sketch, . which had not even been considered by the works committee. The motion was carried.