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Evening Star, Issue 3058, 6 December 1872, Page 2

Every one who has read the report of the proceedings iu the City Council will coincide in the opinion that the Town Belt should be made a healthy and agreeable promenade. In every legislature, Civic, Colonial, or Imperial, there are members who believe it a part of their mission to oppose anything that has the appearance of expenditure of money for ornamental purposes. For our own parts, we think it could be easily and clearly proved that even ornamental walks in the neighborhood of a large city have a beneficial effect. Perhaps the Mayor was a little at fault in his physiology when he compared the Town Bolt to the lungs. The term would have been wore directly applicable to the Octagon or the Dunedin recreation ground, for tj;cy *ko clearly within the bosom of the City. But he was not wrong in his ideal. It would not be difficult, by reference to physiological works to show that, assuming the Town Belt to be the outside boundary of the City, it exerts a sanitary influence equivalent to that of the skin j for it comes into immediate contact with the outer air, and through its pores purities the vital fluids within, co-operating with the lungs iu rendering the blood fit for all the purposes which it was intend to serve, Were