THE AROHA DOMAIN BOARD.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 171, 25 September 1886, Page 2

THE AROHA DOMAIN BOARD.

(TO THE EDITOR.) Sir. — Having been connected with the Te Aroha district for years before its opening as agoldfield,aud still taking a lively interest in all that pertains to its welfare and material prosperity, being an admirer of its natural beauty of position, and many other advantages, including its thermal springs; 1 have been delighted to notice on my occasional visits many improvements carried out by your Domain Board, and have often thought the Board were singularly fortunate in having such a chairman as Mr George Wilson. The tree planting and other ornamentation of the grounds so auspiciously begun, will, in two or three years to come make the Thermal Springs Domain a delightful resort t© piaasureloving, and health seeking visitors from all parts including Ohinemuri, which district will in the future, as in the past, contribute its quota. But I entirely disapprove of the action of the Board who, at its last meeting abused their powers, in hastily, and without due deliberation, giving away for a aong, what might be, if desirable, a material addition to their income, viz, the right of ad vertising in the bath rooms for five years. Why the space occupied by a single business card of twelve inches square, is worth perhaps the whole of the money offered. Let your engineer compute the available space at the above rate, and the Board will surely see that they haye — to draw it mild — done a very unwise thing, and onio which they should undo if possible. Then as to advertfsing in either baths or grounds at all, there are no doubt various opinions, a consensus of which, if taken, would I believe be against such a proceeding. Tho baths should be kept clean, and additional rooms provided, when funds would permit. Plenty of shelter and ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers, should grace the grounds, with well-kept lawns and paths, so that 1 the lovers of the beautiful and grand in Nature should find therein plenty to admire, without being confronted with advertisements. — I am, &c, J. M. Robson. Paeroa, September 23rd, 1886.