The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 LEVIN NOMENCLATURE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 February 1914, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 LEVIN NOMENCLATURE

Ix Levin there are three domain boards--having dominion over land and water. There is the Levin Park Domain Hoard, with a park devoid of trees and feelhi" , quite virtuous over the anomaly, simply hecause an out-of-date American named N. Webster makes no mention of trees in his dictionary definition of '"park." On this head of I he case the secretary to the Board had a i>-ood-humoured tilt at The Chronicle recently; but we still contend that no self-respecting- park would stand in public without trees. A park without trees is like the play of "Hamlet" with the part of the. Prince of Denmark missing. And to quote- the etymologistic ?Coah once more, it may be argued that because he defines "man" as a human being—and makes no reference to the clothes that make him—there is no that he be properly apparelled ! Go to, Mr Secretary, and plant your park, your board being resolved ro utain its present in isomer. Meanwhile the real Park Domain Board is confused with the treeless one, and sometimes with its nearer neighbour also fhe Lake Domain Board. Having regard to these similarities of naming, a member of the board that lias the trees in its domain but no "park" in its title Ik's given notice of his intention to move a< the board's next meeting (hat steps be taken to have fhe hoard's title changed. "Stewart Domain Board" is tentatively suggested as the amending title, and assuredly that title would do honour to a most earnest and zealous worker in the interests of the board. There are other workers with longstanding* service given to -the board, but there will be other opportunities of perpetuating their names, for the increased revenues that the board now enjoys will allow of something substantial

such as a band rot inula- being built within tlie near future, and given the designation of The P rouse Rotunda, say. The indigenous and imported trees in the domain already are giving a grateful arboreal shade, and the next season will see the exuberant growths of coarse grasses reduced to a shorter sward. Then, when the yellow blooms of the kowhias are making lambent the western environs of the park, ami vhe pleasant odour of the eucalypt is abroad in the plantation, the citizens of this well-favoured tov.n will awake to a fuller sense of the great benefits conferred upon us all by the early settlers who se(*W('(l these various reserves and emlowuments for the public weal.