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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1928, Page 2

It is to lie hoped with Lhe further endorsement of the work of the Beautifying Society manifested by the success of tbo gala afternoon on Cass Square •on Saturday that material improvement in the orderliness of the town will result. Folk are travelling more nowadays since the Arthur’s Pass Tunnel is an accomplished fact and many are realising the effect tty the eye, and to the reputation of the town where iieautifving work is in hand. There is no better example in New Zealand in this respect than Christchurch, and there is always a lesson to be learned there a.s to what might be done by a steady policy of street and reserve improvement. What has been accomplished with Cass Square is a case in jxiint locally, but a great deal more remains to be done there. The whole of the ueu needs to be brought into a state nl orderliness, and noxious growth must be suppressed. There is again a tendency to make unsightly tracks by pedestrians across the sward, and this is becoming more and more noticeable with the continued line weather. Public spirit should assist to suppress tile practice and so keep the grounds and the plots in a more sightly condition. The ocean beach is another locality where there is always an opening for ornamental improvement, and with the season approaching for planting, a programme should be arranged betimes. More could be done about some of the principal residential streets in maintaining frontages along roadsides in more seemly order. There is scope here for the community spirit lo show itself, and by a combination o| neighbours maintain the frontages in very attractive order. The local hoily could assist first in levelling many rough places where spoil from open ditches creates rough and unsightly mounds, hotbeds for noxious growth. If the Beautifying Society could do something to inaugurate a general scheme of street improvement affecting such matters as just referred to, the general appearance would be enhanced greatly, and all citizens would be pleased with the result. Now that the right spirit in these matters apjiears to be stimulated in a special way, the good work should lie carried on, and greater pride still be shown in the appearance of the town as a whole.