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Evening Star, Issue 3284, 29 August 1873, Page 2

The Dunedin School Committee should have supplemented their resolution lastevening by some plan for rendering the I’eserve, so usefully cultivated by the Chinese, available for the “ purposes for which it was originally set apart.” We have no objection to its being appropriated to educational purposes, or for recreation, if it can b.e converted into a well-arranged or neatly-kept playground; but we do not know whether that was the purpose for which it was a originally set apart and as it may have been something else, we think the Committee might have deigned to tell the public what it was, when they are asked to sanction the expulsion of the Chinese lessees from it. Before they cultivated it, the ground was a pestilential swamp ; they have converted it into a productive garden. Do the School Committee propose to allow it again to become a bog, or are they prepared to go to the expense of making it an ornamental “ lung ” of the City, and maintaining it in that condition 1 It is easy to pass vague resolutions, but to carry them into effect is not always practicable.