HUTT ROAD.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18722, 19 June 1926, Page 18

HUTT ROAD.

WELLINGTON HAS BEAUTIFICATION SCHEME. (special to the PItESS.) WELLINGTON, June 18. There is a project on foot to transform the Hutt road into an avenue, and the City and Suburban Highways Board has offered the Wellington Automobile Association a chance to supply the necessary trees. A meeting of the Automobile Association is to bo held next week to consider tlie question, it is proposed' that tho trees t u&ed shall be pohutukawas, and the estimated cost will be about £2 IDs per tree. When the project was first on root some years ago, the City Engineer object 1 that the trees would interfere w ith visibility on the road, but this objection no longer holds. The scheme as it stands is to give tho Automobile Association members, who number 2000, the opportunity of each presenting a tree. At the beginning trees will be planted only along the sea sido of tho roadway, and for five miles_ between Wellington and Petone. It is stated that the trees will not be placed closer than a chain apart when planting commences, and on this reckoning about 400 trees would cover the distanoe. This matter, however, is one for arrangement, and if more than 400 trees are given they might be planted closer, or be extended further round the new harbour side drive. /'lt is to be hoped that the motorists will find the proposal to their liking," said Mr H. D. Bennett, a prominent member of the City Highways Board, to-day. "If sufficient trees are given, I think that the Board would do the p anting. It might even put a brass plate beanng the name of the donor on every tree. If the planting is done, we shall have one of the finest drives in the Dominion."