HOW KARORI VIEWS IT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5010, 14 April 1877, Page 3

HOW KARORI VIEWS IT.

TO THE EDITOR OE THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. gjHj—The cutting of the Glenbervie-terrace is an important work, and for several reasons should not be shelved without due consideration. It is the natural line of connection between ■Wellington and her background, and it is also the natural outlet connecting the Museum and Botanical Gardens, two institutions that Wellington will yet be proud of, where young and old can find instruction and recreation free of expense. Again, is it more likely to be effected at some distant day ? But, although important, it would not now or ever be the one thing needful to further the interests of the Karori and Makara districts, so long as our approach for about two miles is bounded by hills on either side, and little ground can be utilised; and if buildings should ever be erected by the wayside their foundations must be excavated in the sides of the steep millies. The one thing needful for the advance of our districts is the connecting link through Polhill Gully to Te Am Is it not notorious that although Karori bounds with the grounds owned by the Wellington Corporation,and is little more than a mile in hue distant from Te Aro, yet we are distant five to six miles by the only available road? At the present time there are about a dozen parties supplying milk from this district, and most of them have customers in Te Aro. Had we a good road we could utilise much of that which is a source of much trouble to Wellington, i.e.,the sweepingorrefuse of the town, the very thing we could not have too much of. This line of road would come near a piece of natural bush, the last remaining near We.lington, which ought to be protected, as it covers the source of the water that supplies the city, and it might also be jnade, by cutting paths in it, at small expense, a fine park or pleasure ground for Te Aro. Another reason, not the least important from its proximity to Wellington : this district as a renovating ground for the sick will be [invaluable. I could name several people who were brought here with life at alow ebb ; a month’s residence in our pure air sufficed to set then on their legs again, with renewed health and vigor. Year by year my place has been visited by members from the different provinces when Parliament was in session, when one question always cropped up, can we get to Wellington without returning by the way we came, or has the road to Te Aro been opened ?—I am, &c., Kobt. Donald.