Let’s Go For a Walk.

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 6

Let’s Go For a Walk.

CENTRAL AND NAIRN STREET PARKS Walk From Willis Street

A deep gully with its trickling stream and steep hill sides has been converted by a clever brain and seeing eye into one of AVellington’s prettiest parks— Central Park. English, Australian and native trees delightfully mingled have been planted in abundance; roses, fuchsias, cannas, rhododendrons and dahlias’nourish; the stream has, been bridged; a fountain plays and shady and sunny paths wind up the hill to Brooklyn. Across a ribbon of bitumen and you ascend the noble sweep of AVashington Avenue. AVellington from this point wears its most dignified and gracious aspect. The harbour appears a landlocked hike; the old part of the city nestles at the base of steep hills with the long straight line-of AVillis Street ami the switchback of The Terrace clearly marked; wharves and shipping line the waterfront; the tall light new buildings tower over the mass of lower roofs. , A few yards more and you turn to the left down Heaton Terrace. A sudden turn and far away the curve of Fitzroy Bay and the blue of the straits show for a moment. The way now lies through the Town Belt and the waterworks reserve, and might almost be a country road, with grassy hillsides, stiles, native shrubs and alluring paths. Below are the green spaces of the Basin Reserve, Government House and college grounds with the lion sweep of Mount Victoria outlined against the darker mass of the Mount Matthew 1 Skirting the high-level reservoir you pass the cross-roads at the top of Bidwell street and come to the Nairn Street Park. From the edge of the playing ground one can see how fast the Art Gallery and Museum grows and from this point hear to best advantage tiie carillon. In front stands in spacious •■■rounds Hie fine house of one of AVelBngton's sturdy sons, and down the hill von puss several specimens of the good early period of colonial architecture. Old trees remind you that once large gardens flourished where now small houses huddle together. But AVillis street is reached once again and here we take our tram homeOF NO MEAN CITY.