Correspondence.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22214, 17 March 1900, Page 2

Correspondence.

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TO THE EDITOR. Sm, —In looking, over tho plans,.speei : fications and ground of the proposed improvements in the II >t Springs Domain, I cannot but remark, how cheap money; must be* that to obtain a little more local land they propose to remove the great mass of-barren conglomeration at present there. A truly, for a Domain, formidable job. And •also after having-been at heavy outlay to secure a swimming hath, to take a piece of the deep end, slant ways, just to make a path straight. The improvements I should effect, it it was my own property and I wished-' to improve it,, would be to begin at the path on the lower side of the present lawn, and raise that to the Ibvol of the lawn, then people could leave or enter oasily anywhere; place pipes up that woe bogone hollow, as partly proposed, right up to its end; and fill in-from the banks abutting all along, also to the level of the lawn,, leaving, some of the best trees standing where they are as picturesque objects on the level surface. Then with the level so created nicely- down in grass, seats could be placed under, the eastern banks, which would prove nice, warm and sunny, during the winter months. A bowlinggreen then could be formed running parallel to Whitaker, street fence along the low part, while the great mass of 'stuff' at its back left severely alone. These works carried out would secure a considerable increase in the area of .level surface,, and add much to the beauty of the place. But the-first and foremost necessity, to my thinking, is to furnish a number of the seats with high, close backs, reaching from the ground 5 to' at least 6 feet* either of wood or felt on frames, as a protection to the loins, backs and shoulders of visitors from, the cold cutting winds, that for nine months out of the twelve pierce the Domain grounds, likely to produce a source of- pneumonia, phthisis, lumbago,, rhiieraatism and sciatica, through tjie cold settling in. the joints, after the pores have been opened by a hot bath. It is strange to me that with all the expert opinions given on the baths, this aspect has never once been mooted, for animate exertions- require every bit "as much iprotecting as the inanimate.. No gardener worthy of the name would take a plant from a hot house and .stick it down outside in the cold. Pb isibly this will be enoughi for the presen- from an unacknowledged expert..—I am, etc.,, ... „ H. J.H,