DAY’S BAY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 8

DAY’S BAY

, ♦ IMPROVEMENT SUGGESTED “The week-end traffic to Day’s Bay,” writes “Nemo,” “makes it almost imperative that something should be done to make the place safe for pedestrians and a little more convenient for carowners. In spite of all that was said a year ago, nothing has been done beyond the paving of the main road and the formation of an extremely narrow footpath in front of the pavilion. The footpath, onlv 3ft. wide in places, could very easily lie widened by the removal of the uupainted and unsightly fence that divides Williams Park from the main road. Its mere removal would give pedestrians a chance to get away from the road and out of the way of the almost endless stream of cars and motor cycles that use the main road on a Sunday. Why the Reserves Committee hesitates over removing this fence is a mystery to those acquainted with the dangerous conditions at present existing, for instead of being a protection to the people on the grounds it is an old-fashioned drab inconvenience.

“On several occasions, too, the removal of the scrubby ill-grown firs, from that waste corner at the junction of Ferrv Road and the main road, has been advocated as a prelude to making a (larking place for cars there. \\ ere this space onlv roughly levelled it would accommodate from thirty to forty cars, whereas at present it is an awkward matter to park half a dozen cars there This triangular piece of land is part of Williams Park—a public propertv —and it should be made available to the public. This work could very easilv be done by the staff at Williams Park, as it only'means the falling of a few extremely uglv trees, and a little rough levelling, whilst the fence along the front of the park itself could be removed in a dav bv the same economical means. “Day’s Bay is one of Wellington s most appreciated possessions, yet little is done, rear after vear, to make the most of it. The dressing shed accommodation is woefully inadequate, and the aspect of the waterfront, apart from the beautv nature has bestowed upon it, reflects credit upon uo one.”