CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1921, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

NEW PLYMOUTH’S BEAUTY. To the Editor. Sir, —If possible give me a little space in your paper to give my views on Now Plymouth. The very great extent to wh'ch the varied undulation extends gives a future to the city of any extent, and the graceful sweeps traversed by your streets make the most picturesque city that I have had the pleasure of viewing. Your pretty residential parts, crowned by the pretty bungalows of countless stapes, make the monotony of sameness impossible. Y'ou have pretty waterways and prettier lakes, where the ingenuity of man has assisted nature to beautify the scene; where the stately swan and teal Sport in happy freedom, and where the soft leaves' of the wineberry stand in contrast with the rough but graceful ferns, and the totara, rimu and koromiko blend to beautify the scene with their varied foliage; even the rough fur grows here to a stately tree, procla toning the richness of the. soil. Your magnificent hospital site makes one envy those who are ill. All nature seems smiling—all but the mother of the footballer, who is taking home from the field as much earth as the law will allow on his clean stir and pants. Most certainly the Almighty formed this site for a city. Even the site held by the statue for fallen soldiers seems to have been placed there for the purpose, and those pillars on the foreshore, too, are loud marks which no other town can boast; and Egmont, too—where is there anything finer for a background? The pillars, I aun told, are being destroyed to make a breakwater or reclaim land, and If this is true, and I were a resident, I would canvass the votes In opposition, and if I failed I would do my best to get tl\e names of the men forming the board handed down to posterity as destroyers of these magnificent pillars.—l am, etc..

J. ANDREWS, Seddon, Marlborough, July 4.