PUBLIC GARDEN.

Southland Times, Issue 1574, 7 May 1872, Page 3

PUBLIC GARDEN.

S IR) — Win you permit me to express an opinion contrary to your correspondent, " Senex," relative to the wisdom of the Town Council in proposing to spend a portion of the proceeds arising from the saie of the land fronting Tay street in improving those blocks of land reserved for public gardens south of Tay and Forth streets. By the advertisement, I find that the proposed plans are to show a continuation of the cutting of the Puni Creek. Few — very few, if any — persons will doubt the absolute necessity of this work, and as a work of public utility— if the Council had not obtained what I have heard named as a windfall — it would have had to have been done out of the ordinary revenue of the corporation — that is of course presuming the Council wish to act fairly with all parts of the town, and no one doubts that — , inasmuch as the creek must be i straightened before the flat can be J drained properly, ar.d when once • straightened the land will seldom be flooded as it is often now. A well-directed expenditure in fencing these blocks, forming walks, and laying down portions in grass, cannot fail to be anything but a general good, and need not absorb all the revenue. — I am, &c, Recreation. May 4th, 1872. m