FRANKLIN BEAUTIFYING SOCIETY.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 676, 21 October 1921, Page 5

FRANKLIN BEAUTIFYING SOCIETY.

GENERAL MEETING. A general meeting of the Franklin Beautifying Society was held in the Masonic Hall on Wednesday night, the President (Mr H. H. Patjtle) presiding over a fair attendnee of members. The secretary (Mr Chas. Bonner, jun.) tendered! his resignation as secretary, which was accepted with regret. The matter of interviewing a person likely to accept the secretaryship yiras left in the hands of the president. Committee’s Report. ' The Planting Committee reported as follows :—■ “Your committee decided to proclaim an Arbor Day ?jt a date »to be fixed, andi to institute a 1 yearly campaign to be called “Plant a Tree” campaign, the trees to be planted in the hedges fronting roadways, two feec or (thereabouts back from Ithe frontage,, except in streets in which the committee recommends planting on the footpath. Your committee proposes !to report on any streets in which it considers plantihg on footpaths #aote suitable. Your committee has recommended owners to adopt forty feeit intervals between trees as a standard, and approached both the Franklin County Council and the Pukekohe Borough Council, and obtained assurances from both these bodies 'that we mighjt rely on their jurisdiction being exercised sympathetically so far as possible, and so as,to encourage the planting of trees within road frontages: under the conditions mentioned. Some attempt, was made to get trees planted this year, but owing to the lateness of the season but few (trees were planted. Wiith an earlier start next season,' your committee hope to secure the planting of a substantial number of trees, and (to follow up the matter eahe year. Your committee recommends that a garden competition be at once in-, stituted, with annual prizes of £5 £3, and £l, for the best kept garden, such gardten to be the work of -the householder, without any hired assistance : such gardens to be inspected three times in the year, each year to end on 31sit May, two inspections only to be made for this first year—one end of November and the other in March.

The Pukekohe Borough Council, having 'decided to hand over to the Society the care of Roulston Park, your committee has accepted an offer from Messrs Pattle and Clews to visit the ground and submit! proposals.”

Publicity Committee.

Mr H. H. D. Wily, convenor of the Publicity Committee, reported on the doing's of this body. He stated that a proposal to publish a paper entitled “The Garden,” had failed to materialise, although final arrangements for /the publication had been made. The proposed publicity campaign had, up to the present, fallen flat. He had, however, received an an offer from the “Franklin Times” to publish half a column weeklv of Beautifying Society notes. The offer was accepted with ‘thanks. Both reports were adopted. The fee for entering gardens for the garden competition was fixed at 2s 6d.

It was decided to go right ahead with the above competition. Accounts amounting :to £2 10s were passed for payment.