CITY TREE PLANTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 193, 13 August 1920, Page 7

CITY TREE PLANTING.

(To tho Kditor.l Sir,-- , !! is satisfactory to find the City Council looking with favour upon the efforts that arc'being made by the I Civic League and the town planners towards getting suitable Btreets planted With trees. It would be better still if some general scheme could be prepared and adopted by the authorities and the work done on an extensive scale. All the petty objections and opposition to street planting ought to be silenced in ': face of the example of tho two greatest I centres of civilisation—Paris and London. ' The beautiful, shady boulevards of Paris are as great an attraction in the city life as its crstliest monuments and buildings. In London the long line of trees along the Embankment has transformed what might have been a dreary paved street i i into one of the most pleasant of drives 'or walks. Both these enterprises were 'carried out within recent times, when every foot of land was of enormous value. To turn to our own comparatively small i towns, Christehureh has set us an example of what civic patriotism can do towards beautifying, not to speak of its heltw or boulevards. In the very centre of the town from Cathedral . Square to the river, looking north, there • lie a charming prospect of trees, turf and .flowers interspersed amongst the build- ■ ings. Invercargill, one of the windiest I places on the face of the earth, has been ; wonderfully improved by belts of trees, i Cannot Auckland take Up the work in f good earnest'/ Nothing could add more .to the beauty of the harbour than ■ tree* along its coast seen from shipa apI I proachinj! the wharves. Nothing would . I more relieve the dreary and mean ap- | i pea ranee of too many of our streets.— fj 1 am. etc., " K.H.S.