BOROUGH RESERVES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 19, 15 October 1937, Page 7

BOROUGH RESERVES

Additional Trees in the Parks Included in the activities of the borough reserves departmerit last month was the planting of 50 trees at Ebbett Pgrk and 84 trees at Windsor Park. Reporting on the department 's work the superintendent, Mr. J. G, C. Mackenzie, said that oijdng to the lateness of the season and shortage of suitable trees, not as many trees as intended had been planted. He reported that one of the specimen trees a lime 10ft. high by 2ins. in diameter, that liad been planted at Ebbett Park, had been mutilated and cut in hglf by some vandal. Fifty chains of he-dge in Cornwall Paik was removed and appropriate bdds of shrubs had been planted by all tfie entrances and along the Robert street frontage. The erectiou of a scrqb fence and the planting of a dwarf hedge on the Tomoana road frontage to the bird pens had been completed, Satisfactory progress was being made with the erection af the sports pavilioij. at Cornwal] Parjr. The first pruning of the Mangaroa forest had been completed, and 293 cords of pine and 17 cords of gum wood were removed. All dead branches and rubbish in the forest were cleaned up and burnt, and the reserve left in a tidy condition.