" OUR PRETTY LITTLE SQUARE."

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 303, 27 June 1895, Page 2

" OUR PRETTY LITTLE SQUARE."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAE. Sm,— I refer to Manchester Square and a statement inade by you in one of last week's issues of the Star to the effect that Mr Weightman had kindly made a donation of trees and shrubs, etc., to further adorn what I am pleased to call " our pretty little Square." Now, it is not my intention to open up another discussion on the merits of our present Square, and I should be sorry, indeed, if what I say;, here could be calculated to wound or^ hurt anyone's feelings to whom Manchester Square, in its present state, is an eyesore ; but Ido earnestly ask our Council, as one who claims a right to his own opiuion, and as one who, I believe, is quoting the opinion of hundreds of people living in and around Feilding, to consider very seriously whether the Square can be improved by additional plantation or any other way. What more does it want? Bounded as it is by the finest buildings in Feilding, with the Rotunda on one side and the firebell-tower on the other. So, to leave the Square just as it is, and as it has been since I nave been in the Feilding district, is what I ask the Council to resolve when it next comes up for discussion at their meetings. Hence the object of this letter. These are no little words of sarcasm, but a bonafule appeal from a lover of the Picturesque.