TOWN BEAUTIFYING SOCIETY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10664, 20 June 1912, Page 5

TOWN BEAUTIFYING SOCIETY.

{To The Editor.l

Sir, —I aim pleased to. mote the formation of a- Town Beautifying Society. I presume its" functions will •be to plant trees and shrubs in suitable parts of the town. Perhaps the Society will educate -public taste, so that it -will admire .'trees, shrbbs, ■flowefs; neat gardens, nice, feiibas and (homes, as all these tend to beautify, a town., and maike it am, attractive residerifcM resort, especially if the town •has good educat&nal institutions. Perhaps the Society .will ta>ke into ronsadeirdbkm the efforts of some of their fellow towmftiwiii who lAiv-e already .tried to footoiui% tlie town by tailding nice houses,' making ga.rd>eus, planting trees and erecting bandi some fences on. the street line*. Per- '. (haps the Society will! also use their influence to protect these townsmen from the vandalism of the powers Ithat be, who. now compel them to fctiit and hack aJbo-u* their trees and Ehrute, and thins make a disfigurement of w<hat should he an ornament to the town. .Take my own ctese. I llrtvtfe ibectti improving my place in I Worksop Road for the last tweniyIsiix. yearns), aaid have made it an retractive p'airt cf the town. It is a fa.vou.rite w#c for my fellow townsfolk, both in. sumims'r a-nd winter. -Km(the 'la&t fdw yctor-s I have'been'worried iwalth notices from the Borough Council to cut'down branchesef trees in Worksop Road 'and Colomba Road for the following axtaedns:— Worksop Road: Pedestrians complained that the.drip firom tbo branches fell on them -when it rr<ined.' (Please note that' the lowest branches were nine tfeet above the ground of the footpath.) In Colombia Road: The trees ishhded the street and kept it .vet. iWMi the .result .that I had to out and tomitilaite a fine' clump of acacias in that road, and spoil a fine walk and fcehuty spot. I have to do the same tin WiCftvlrsop Road to choice and rare trees. Seme are dead, while others became so unsightly that they will have to he out out : . I .suppose lam n/tft the only one singled out, and, -,-several 5 others have been,\impelled to do ais i ; ha.ve done. /Gfensequehtly; there is plenty of scope for a Town BeaiuSftfying Socielty.— I am, etc., M. CASELBEEtQ. Masterton, June 19, 1912. .