LETTERS TO EDITOR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 169, 4 August 1937, Page 3

LETTERS TO EDITOR

"Trees — Trees — Trees" — re Gods! Whon will this destiuction of trees end? I read with •awe last evening in your paper the proposal to do away with the hedges around Cornwall Park. Surely the council or the reserves manager does not intend tp get the park back to what it was '30 years ago; a bare padCIOC1C.J * Why spend all the money recentlv to stoke an efficient' playing-area which wili ultimately become a public thoroughtare from every angle? As it is now> the public are compelled to use the drives in going through the nark, but not so if the hedges are all removed, and what a farce the beautiful gates will *be standing out by themselves like the fuins of Pompeii. Surely the City Fathers do not intend to remove these also, because with the bedges gone they also would.be nsoless. Then again, how are you going to control sports, hockey tou'rnaments, etc., where a charge fo^ admissiou is made (which can how be done on certain days- of the year). With Nelson Tark shortly to be made into a public square, Hastings will have no plaee whereiu matehes sueh as cricket, football, athlctics can be held. This will t'orce the council either lo spend thou-J-ands in buying another ground or alJow all contests to go to Napier or clsfwhere. The park, with hedges gone, will also bq vory easy access to stray cattle and dogs. As regards hydrangeas to supplant tlio hedges, certainly they look nice in summer, but nobodv could possibly say they are a thing of beauty in the winter time, whereas a hedge nicely tiimmed always loolcs well lf the denuding of trees in the .park continues as it has begun, shortly there will be nothing lcft. Eemember the park belongs not to the Borough Council or the reserve manager, but to the ratepayers, who shouid have a say. — Yours, etc., • RATEPAYER. Hastings, Aug. 3, 1^37.