TOWN BEAUTIFYING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 26, 20 June 1914, Page 6

TOWN BEAUTIFYING.

NECESSITY FOR LOOKING WELL AHEAD. Says yesterday's Dominion:—The widespread movement for the, improvement and beautifying of our towns should receive a useful stimulus from the visit of the British town-planning experts, Messrs. Roadc and Davidge. in the course of an interview published in the Daily News yesterday, Mr. Eeade made some interesting suggestions for the enhancement of the magnificent water-frontage of New Plymouth. A well-designed scheme of improvement there might easily, as Mr. Reti.de points out, make the town one of the most attractive seaside resorts in the Dominion, and amply pay the initial cost by drawing annually a steady stream of holiday visitors. The citizens of New Plymouth have always shown eonimend- !' able enterprise in co-operating for the advancement of their town, and the scheme to he shaped by Mr. Davidge on I his visit next month will no doubt en- \ courage them to further efforts. As Mr. Reade points out, it ia necessary in all town improvement to look well ahead. In New Plymouth, as in many, other centres, reserves set aside in the original laying out of the town have 'been allowed to slip away from the control of the authorities, and now houses and 'back yards stand on what was once the Town Belt. Dorough councillor*, when tempted to dispose of municipal reserves, would do well to pause a moment aiid reflect that this country—and incidentally their town—is likely to have a very considerable future ahead of it.