PUKEKURA PARK BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 5 July 1910, Page 2

PUKEKURA PARK BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING.

The regular monthly meeting of the Pukekura iPark Board was held last night, u'lien there were present: Messrs. R. Cock (chairman), A. E. Walking, W. L. Newman, R. C. Hughes, G. Tisch, Harris Ford, F. C. J. Bell ringer, W. W. Smith (curator), and E. H. Tribe (secr&tary).

Apologies for absence were received from Messrs. C. W. ftovett, S. PercySmith, and F. P. Corkill. The Board passed a resolution approving of the local Bill being promoted by the New Plymouth Borough Council to obtain leasing powers over the municipal reserves on the east' side of the Avenue rgad near the High School. A letter was read from the Park Tennis and Croquet Club asking the deletion from the terms of the proposed lease of certain clauses which it was thought would prove inconvenient. The chairman said it would be quite unfair to ask the. club to incur the expenditure of clearing.away the gorse and blackberry on the Carrington road frontage to the grounds. Nor was it fair or

wise to have these notice-boards erected inviting the public to enter on the tennis courts promiscuously. He considered the Board should dispense with the provisions for the notice-boards and sTlould clean up this frontage, after which the club would keep it in order. .Mr. Tribe said Mr. Govett had intimated to him that lie was strongly in favor of retaining both clauses, particularly with, regard to the notice-boards, which were usual in English and Australian parks. Mr. E. C. Hughes said he 'was glad that the trustees of the club had accepted the main terms of the suggested license, and differed on what were after all minor matters. He considered it a good thing far the Board that ladies and gentlemen should combine in this way to take up the waste spaces in the park and beautify them for the benefit of the community, and also relieve the Board of the expense of a work which they were quite unable to carry out owing to lack of funds.

The chairman expressed the hope that other people would combine and take over other suitable portions of the park, for playing grounds. He instanced a ■pretty little piece of the grounds near the late Mrs. Carnell's property, near the racecourse property. The Board, without dissent, carried a resolution deleting the provision for the notice-hoards, and the club was given authority to make provisions to protect the club from trespass. It was decided that the Board steps to have the road frontage cleared of wteds. The curator, Mr. W. W. Smith, reported that during the month the principal work had been cleaning walks, digging and finishing the planting of the larsre beds at the new entrance, and cleaning gorse and mimosa around the waterfall. Ashes had been put 011 the more slippery parta of the paths. They were now at work on tile slope clearing away the gorse and grass preparatory to digging for planting azaleas and camellias -in groups. The secretary announced that the bank •Yerdraft stood at £l4O.