BEAUTIFYING PAEROA.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4477, 9 October 1922, Page 2

BEAUTIFYING PAEROA.

AN APPEAL FOR WORKERS The following appeal by Mr. J. L. Hanna is made on behalf of the committee of the Paeroa Beautifying and Improvement Society: z "To the members of the Paeroa Beautifying and Improvement Society (incorporated) and to all citizeps who take a pride in our town and wish to make it more worthy of their pride I now appeal, for something small, but with the full assurance that I will make a greater appeal at the end of our second year. "We are now nearing the comple- 1 tion of the Society’s work at the railway station. The greater part of the fencing is done, the ground has been very thoroughly worked and planted (we always do things well), and the palms will be planted this week. You will all agree, firstly, that it is not wise to plant large plants, as they get too severe a shaking in the moving, and, secondly, that plants well tended come on three or four times as quickly as those left to fight for their existence. You have all noticed how a shrub planted in a flower bed, where it is continually getting the benefit of the manure given to the flowers, and of the weedipg and general working of the soil, thrives as comparea with one planted in the grass and left unattended. Now that is just what we want to achieve here. The palms we are planting are all small, and will riot show up to advantage fo- a year on two, and with a view to securing immediate effect and quickly encouraging the growth of the palms we want eighteen adults or girls and youths over 15 years of age who appreciate the value of civic spirit and town beautifying to come forward and undertake to maintain in flowers a circular bed of about six or eight feet in diameter round each palm. The obligations your undertaking will entail will be willingly supplied by the secretary, the Rev. W. J. Enticott, the assistant, secretary, Miss Dutton, or, myself. I can assure you now that your obligations will hot entail more than three half-days in the year for planting and half an hour a week for weeding. It is surely an easy way of helping in these hard times.

“Just think for a moment what it will mean to have eighteen flower beds full of blossoms, 18 masses of colour, on that grass sward. What pride will you take in the thought that one of the beds is your work. What pride will your fellow-towns-people take in the completed work. Just think back three weeks and you won’t find it easy to picture it exactly as it was when we started. Think, too, before you lightly pass over this appeal, what will the travelling public and visitors arriving by train think of the approach to your home town as compared with what it was.

“Let us see now by your response to this appeal how many citizens really appreciate in a practical way our humble efforts as compared with those who are satisfied to sit back and reap the benefits. "We have p.n axe to grind, and that axe is PAEROA.