OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 6

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

A CENTRAL REST GARDEN (To the Editor.) Sir, —Your leader about the removal of seats from outside the Labour Department shows us the urgency of using our imagination a little more. We learn that in the last few years over a million has been spent in Masterton in building. Probably half as much has been spent on private gardens. Yet we arc letting slip the opportunity of saving for the town the one open space suitable to make a rest garden, central and quiet—the old churchyard. Certainly it was granted for a church, but we all know "we are 'nearer God’s heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.” A lease of 21 years could be taken by the Borough Council. The Beautifying Society could put in flowering trees and shrubs, which would not be much trouble to the Park gardeners to keep in order; seats and possibly a “drip fountain” for the benefit of birds and dogs are not expensive. Before many years Masterton may have 20,00(1 inhabitants, and think of their feelings if we allow a tannery or factory to stifle the little open space we have in the centre of the town. If we secure the space the more ambitious scheme! might come after the war. Thanking you for your space.—l am. etc.. ANNE FLETCHER. Masterton, May 6.