RESERVES POPULAR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 54, 19 March 1937, Page 6

RESERVES POPULAR

Many Visitors to Hastings Main Parks PAST MONTH REVIEWED The popularity of Cornwall Park and the camping ground and the burdensome eost of trimming the hedges at Oomwall Park were matter s referred to by the borough . superintendent of reserves, Mr J- G. C. Mackenzie, in his monthl v report to the Borough Council last evening. The report stated that the summer display at Cornwall Park was at its bost during the past month and the reserve was particularly well patronised bv the publio. A roadway was iormed through the section recently purchased for a nursery. Approximately 75 cubic yards of soil were ob-fcained during this work, and will be used for top-dressing purposes. During the month 106 parties 7isited the Motorists' Camp at Windsor Park, o'f which 31 stayed a week or more. The camp fees amounted to £33 1/6 as against £20 11/6 for February, 1936. Canoe fees for the month were £10 2/- compared with £3 2/- for the same period last year. The entrance gat°s t» this park and cattle stop have been completed, and the stone workers are now employed in construeting tables and seats. An area is bemg levelled at Nelson Park for cricket practice pitches} and 30cwt. of potatoes were lifted from Ebbett Park and sold for £8 16/-. The superintendent asked the council to give consideration to the eowing down in grass of the following areas : — Ebbett Park, near the Gordon road entrance ahd near the tennig courts j Victoria Square; Willowpark road reserve and the footpath round Cornwall Park. With the exception of the last-men-tioned work, estimated to cost £6, the oouncil deferred consideration until preparing the estimates. Siinilar action was taken regarding the ■ superintendent' s reeommendation that the hedges at Cornwall Park be either reduced to half their present size, or be replaced with a low stone wall and pillars, or with iron railings. In this regard he said that the maim tenance of the hedges was now a big item, the cost being about £38 a cut.