THE KEEPING OF HER JEWELS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 July 1926, Page 18

THE KEEPING OF HER JEWELS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Albert Park, I -was enjoined to remembeT by a Grand Old Man in the school opposite, was mine for all time; therefore I must not despoil her of her flowers, or maim her trees, or unsightly her with litter. The Domain, too, wae i mine to tread with proprietorial feet; but I must remove neither plant nor fern, for they were there to pleasure the i eyes of all, not mine alone. And some > day, when Auckland "was big and splen- | did; some day, when these emerald spaces were jewels beyond price; come day, when we were men and women grown to fuir"citizen estate—with, limbs rested, with eyes refreshed—we would i rise up and call "blessed" the guardians I of our twin geme. Alas! he envisioned I neither the filching of one for municipal j decoration, nor the "hoarding" of the other for material gain. Sir, a.s Albert Park amd the Domain are to the citizens of to-day, co are One Tree Hill, Cornwall' Park, and the Waitakeres to the citizens of to-morrow and the days after. Are they in safe keeping? \yhat right j of alienation, if any, do our City Fathers possess?—l am, etc., " ALICE BASTEN.