CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4444, 3 August 1909, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor)

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Sir, —In looking over last Monday’s Herald I came across a paragraph from Hamilton to the effect that the Borough Council have decided to plant certain streets with trees. I would respectfully suggest to our Borough Council that they follow the same example. There is one street especially that would certainly make a beautiful avenue —that is Rewi street. Planted with the right kind of evergreen trees, this street would certainly be an ornament to our town. We could make it an historical avenue by having every family present a tree and have their names on it. I I do not think any of us wouldgrudge the few shillings they will cost. I would also suggest that we procure a tree and have it planted as a mark of esteem to such of the old identities who are still in the land of the living and have done good service to the com- f munity ; a few of them come to my recollec- i tion, Mr Thomas Taylor, Waihou, Mrßcubin t Parr, and a number of other settlers I cannot t bring to mind. Ex mayors, A. J. Farmer, I James Mills, Thomas Gavin, Mr Edw. Gallagher, these gentlemen have all done good service and have born the burden and ] heat of the day and we should not forget their services. Coming to the present time our worthy Mayor should not be forgotten. I remember when he first took office we were certainly in the slough of despond, and the task set to him was anything but an agreeable one. I have not always seen eye to eye with Mr Somers, at the same time I give him full credit for what he has done for the town, and as a slight recognition of his services . both in time and money I would suggest we call it “ Somers’ Avenue.” Now Sir, I know there are certain objections to tree planting on the streets, such as interfering with the wires, dead leaves, and so on, but this can easily be avoided by getting the right kind of trees and having them planted in the proper places, by so doing no damage can ensue. I am sure nothing looks better or more attractive than a beautiful av me of shady trees, and if our worthy Mayor and Borough Councillors will only take the matter up they ‘ will deserve the best thanks of the citizens j and visitors. There is plenty of time to do it | this season if they will only make a start. The Cornishman says the start is more than half the work. Go along that bleak forbidding street and fancy what it will be in the future, and one and all will use their power to have it done. I must not encroach i any further on your space, as I can see thousands of young men and women coming back to Te Aroha and claiming a family tree. I— I am, etc. John W iluahs-