PARK IMPROVEMENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7940, 13 January 1906, Page 5

PARK IMPROVEMENT.

* REPORT BY THE 10W.N CLERK. Mr R. Brown, Town Clerk, reported to the meeting of the Park Committee laat evening as follows: —"During my visit to Cbristoburcb I was shown some of the improvements effector! by the Beautifying Associaton in the public grounds belonging to the city. The Association is, 1 understand, a permanent one, and has done a very great deal to make Cbristoburch attractive to visitors, as well as to the people of the place. The islands clothed with flowering shrubs, etc., the beautiful banks and gardens bordering ou the river Avon tastefully laid out and judiciously planted, are real assets, and call forth the admiration of visitors. My informant said that a few years ago most of these uow lovely spots were swampy, ugly, and insanitary, and the transformation is entirely owing to the efforts of a number of energetic residents, backed up by the subscriptions of patriotic citizens. The Association must be very much alive, and the people who support it are progressive enough to improve their public grounds, and onoourago tourists and others to visit the City of the Plains—which reminds one, so much of the Old Country. I am convinced that a Masterton Park Beautifying Association ou somewhat similar lines would have a great work before it, and one that would well repay all the time and money that could be bestowed upon it. With the inclusion of the whole ol' tha land between the Park and the river, there will be natural facilities for conversion into one of the most beautiful places in the colony."

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