DOUGLAS PARK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 4

DOUGLAS PARK

NAME OF NEW RECREATION AREA GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED. PROVISION FOR CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND. Douglas Park is to be the name of the five acre area recently donated to the borough of Masterton by the Douglas Estate Trustees. The x land, which is located at the western end of Cole Street, is to be used as a general purposes park and is to be. developed gradually. Decisions to this effect were made at last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council. The chairman of the Park Committee, Councillor G. D. Wilson, . stated that the committee, accompanied by Mr H. L. Robinson, representing the Masterton Beautifying Society, had inspected the gift area. It was recom’mended that the park should be used for genera] recreational purposes, both for adults and children. It was intended to set aside a corner for the children where swings, etc., would be erected. The committee recommended that the area be gradually developed as finance was available and, that the Park Custodian and Mr Robinson bring down a comprehensive scheme which the council could follow. It was recommended that the area be named Douglas Park. The recommendations were adopted by the council.

Ladies’ Rest Room. Two hundred and one visitors, 220 country and 111 townspeople visited' the Ladies Rest rooms, Masterton, last month. The committee room was engaged eleven times, twice by the Lady Galway Guild and nine times by the Patriotic Committee. Men for Waiouru Camp. Additional men to proceed to Waioui’u camp for three months’ Territorial training, on October 1, are: —G. J. Beer (Masterton), F. H. Wilton (Masterton), A. A. Burt ’(Featherston), R. S. Busch (Martinborough), H. L. Butcher (Carterton) . Band Activities. The Masterton Municipal Band held eight band practices last month. An instrumental quartet from the band assisted at the St. Andrew’s concert on August 2. A concert that was to have been held in the Park on Sunday, August 17, was postponed on account of bad weather. Youth Fatally Injured. ■ Knocked down by a motor-car in Newton, Auckland, on Monday afternoon, Neil Slight, aged 16, printer’s apprentice, Grey Lynn, suffered severe concussion and died in hospital the same night. The driver of the car was Constable R. Wilkes, of the Kingsland Police Station. A Pahiatua Case. “I am inclined to think we have gone too far in the direction of granting probation in these cases,” said the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, in sentencing Cedric Thomas Forster, roadman, aged 37, to eight months’ hard labour on a charge of unlawful carnal knowledge in Pahiatua. Pipe Lining Operations. “If the weather is favourable this month the whole of the work provided for should be completed,” stated the Borough Engineer, Mr C. R. Mabson in reporting to the Masterton Borough Council last night on the progress of the concrete lining of the water mains. “A serious break in the 6-inch cast iron pipe in Dixon Street was discovered,” he said. Thomas Bracken’s Grave. A suggestion to raise a fund for the perpetual upkeep of the grave of Thomas Bracken, author of "Not Understood” and the Dominion’s national song, “God Defend New Zealand," has been made by the Mayor of Dunedin, Mr Allen, who said that the city council had hitherto undertaken to keep the grave in order, but he felt sure that the people of the Dominion would subscribe to raise a sum to provide for it in perpetuity. He suggested a sum’up to £250.

The Fishing Season. Though there will probably be fewer rods in use this year because of the departure of younger anglers for overseas, and the difficulties in travelling because of the limited supplies of petrol, prospects in the Wellington acclimatisation district for the trout-fishing season, which will open in a fortnight, are reported to be as good as they have ever been. There have been quite heavy rains, but no' major flood to disturb the habitats of fish and require them to re-establish themselves. Provided the weather is as it should be on October 1, it is thought there will be good fishing. Last season there, were 1718 anglers licensed by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. The number included 109 women and 266 boys. The, number of licences taken out in 1937 was about 1100. The limit take for this district is 12 fish. Saint Andrew Society. At the last' meeting of the council of the Saint Andrew Society a number of new members were elected, and several applications for membership were elected, and several applications for membership were submitted to undergo for the prescribed period, scrutiny as to eligibility. Arrangements were made for the next monthly gathering to be held on Saturday, October 4. It was decided that Halloween celebrations be included in the programme for the gathering to be held on Saturday, November 1. On that occasion, a juvenile committee is to be -asked to take charge. It was decided to hold the annual Saint Andrew’s night concert on Saturday, November 29, as Saint Andrew’s Day (November 30) falls this year on a Sunday. The society’s concert director, Mr William C. Mann, promises, for that occasion, a programme even better than those presented in the past. Reference was made to the loss sustained by the society in the impending departure from Masterton of Mr Graham Dickel and his family.