OUR PARKS AND GARDENS.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7350, 1 July 1889, Page 6

OUR PARKS AND GARDENS.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE PRESS. Sir,—You have already kindly published i communications from mc on the great want to be found in our public parks and gardens of sitting accommodation, none at all existing in Ihe former and quite insufficient to be found in the latter. Again I trouble you in order to give the following extract from the Xciv Zealand TimeA of 24th inst. to show what cau be dona under analogous circumstances:— " An Historical Esplanade—The efforts of Mr George Woodward to provide seat 3 for the Thorndon Esplanade have been warmly taken up, and he has now completed his list of twenty seats. In several cases seats were offered him without any solicitations. Uesam Luke and Sons have received the ordei for the tweuty handsome garden loungers, each of which will cost £4. The names of the donors will bo cast into the body of the seat in gilt letters. It is expected that the first ten seats will be placed in ppsition in about a fortnight's time, and the remainder a couple of weeks later. Mr Woodward is so satisfied with the result of his self-imposed mission, and from the liberal encouragement he has met with, that he intends raising money for a music rotunda on the esplanade, where during the summer evenings the local bands can discourse sweet music. Such attractions should make Thorndon espla* nade a fashionable evening resort. Several citizens have already given in their support for the rotunda scheme." (Then follows a list of tho donors.) The article winds up as follows:— ,; Mr Woodward it deserving of tjreat credit for his spirited and successful attempt to beautify the Thorndon suburb, and it is very gratifying to find our citizens so promptly responded to his call.' . Does the Cathedral City not possess a citizen with the requisite energy and knowledge of the people to do as Mr Woodward has done for the Empire City? Surely she has. —Yours, &c, Returned Colonist.