CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2780, 4 September 1924, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To The Editor.)

Sir, —Tr is rumoured that there is :i conspiracy among certain Councillors io remove an ancient landmark opposite the Court House. T refer, sir, to the heavy chains threaded through posts which surround a. crass plot known as the Triangle Reserve, in the centre of which stands the Soldiers’ Memorial. The object of the conspiracy is to remove fhe chained-in enclosure and to erect a raised kerb in its place. Sir, T hope the Mayor will not allow the ratepayers money to he wasted upon such an act of vandalism or modernism. Those relics remind the growing generation of the days of I lie chain gang and the convict compound. The imagination of the stranger or visitor is easily stirred alien he gazes from the clpiin-en-closed grass plot to (he forbidding Court House-opposite. No. sir, let us cling to one of the few remaining links which toll of the ironhound past. The next thing these modern new-comers will want to do is to lay down a footpath in front of Thakara Garden and mar the present effect of the ornamental fence. If these people are no! checked. Foxton will lie in danger of losing its antient appearance. Look, sir. at what has already happened to the old cemetery by the destruction of the graceful lupin, the choice hroom and the picket fence. Ah me! Lack a day! Watch out. Mr Mayor or changes will he wrought and more money frittered away.— Yours as of old. RIP VAN WINKLE.