THE MAN, THE BOY AND THE DONKEY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 471, 24 August 1909, Page 2

THE MAN, THE BOY AND THE DONKEY.

Thr action of the Borough Council in planting both sides of Clyde and Park Streets with trees and erecting triangular wooden guards, is creating much comment, adverse and otherwise. Many people are of the opinion that the streets are too narrow for more than one row of trees ; others, again, with no eye for beauty, reckon the planting is a waste of ratepayers money and when the trees grow up the r&tds will be veritable quagmires, also the leaves shed from the trees will till up the gutters of houses whence the water-supply is derived. (We hope, however, that before the trees Jhave arrived at tlat stage, Foxtou will not be dependant upon tanks for its househo*id water supply). Others, agfln, opine that the Council are mcvjng in the right direction, bdNvjng that the time has arrived the town should receive a jptle more attention from a beautifying point of view,- Public pplnion is also divided in reference the improvements which are telng effected to the Triangle Reserve, in Main Street, and regret that the shrubs were grubbed opt; others agree that a green sward with flowering shrubs and a nice footpath will be an improvement, Others, again, consider that the flagstaff should remain where it is rather than be removed to the Park, but that the present platform should be enlarged and ornamented as a band rotunda. Others have even suggested that the lonely guardian of Mr A. Jonson’s orchard, i.e., the figurehead of the ill-fated Hydrabad, which, by the way, has inspired many a child and stranger with fear, should be set up in the Triangle ere it be snapped up by greedy Palmerston to further popularise their squares. Athletes urge that the path round the triangle be widened to such dimensions to enable the holding of gas-light sports. In fact the suggestions which have been poured in upon us for publication are numerous, bewildering and libelous. If the Mayor and Council tried to please everybody, well, they would please no one.