THE SQUARE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19644, 13 June 1929, Page 9

THE SQUARE.

OLD PLANS FOUBiD. SIGNIFICANT EVIOKNCE Thive plana of early « *:. rial <-it urea, which throw considerable light «*a • »•* the inter, ticas of the p»o»:#*r# mrtm #»- garding the Square, have beam fa**! *r Mr E. J. Bell while *earchir.g thrwog* mm' miseellaaeooa t*uaol*« *t*.r#d a* the Pob'ie Library. The pUtw are •** niveau: as deaaoaatratisg that, rgk»* :r».m lv*C--the date of the fir»t pUa till I**3, the date cf the third. tSietv.ti much uneartaißty in the auada •"" the civic aathoriUe* aa to what tmrv* the Square should tame, whether Uwr • should be a road through i: cr a#t, aa precisely where the t":.th*4ra'. ahocKl t> bui't. In the t.rnt plaa, draw* tire* wan-* after the arrira) o* the Ftrrt Wtm Ship*, Cathedral itqaare is •**«• ■; in ihv fwrm of a wit: the prupo*ed Cathedral Main* ing right in <*ntr». aaa*. *•> weft. There >s bo provisiea fee a r»» * through it »urh as *si*ta tA-rtay. •» •»»" nil traffic would have had t* go rtgh? round the Cathedral Though saute*! "Cathedra! square,'" the ar«-a ia •♦» square, bet more !s the form #f a Ma' teac cross. Ail the «■■<■!ioa* are mark*''" off »nd rum be red. The p!ai ?»eara the acmes of Thomas Oim, fer Canterbury. IWJ, and William Gnitr Brittan. Registrar of Orede, I(VSS By 1f39 the authorise* had rhMfs4! their minds about the form #f th» Square aad the peaitioa of the Cathe dral. The cross it ahowa diffcdew »« tho centre by CalaaSo street (aa t* was ih-n named "*. The Is ad «*a ffc» west and east are evidently eet atfti* for reaer.-es. but the Cathedral to a*t marked on this plan at ail. To-day thone on the east eontiiet the CatW4»! and the one on the weaf the <3*4Wy Statue site and the trans akeltar. Th* plnrt bears the a*me of H. P. niaaehar-' In the plan of ISS3 the r%q«art »» shown almost a* it in t»-4ay. Tfce Cathedral i» shown en its acaaaat ait*, the Godley site opposite, walla t*<* tramlines are running fr&m the »««*> entering the Sciaare aad gwag >■■■»; irto the transited.

Other XstanMtttig Mat*. There are ot! er point* of iater*" ia the 1§."3 plan. Colombo street was cvidasitiy {'intuit* street is those <la*p. .ir:d \"Kter a t-quara was BimM) Market place, <»«■ the plan also is Whateiy street, srfcirt to-day is Victoria t*T*~t. bat pmm* ing Salisbury street in the eld 4»ya »« wit called Northern roa4. Marked on the wt# erf the prtw Provincial ♦oan'Sl Chamber* is O word "hospital.' so that extdinitt? tfc* pioneer* thought of building this ia#t tution there. The f'nMic library. a« we know it to-day, is *»t a»*.rk*d •v* the plan, but there is a ait* a»srk«»* "Mechanics* Institute," aad diss t* about the position of tre- pranrt **»" Statue. Where tb«> oil City Owtsa**i offieea are standing \ ,-Amy >* im*rk*4 "Surrey Offices," whi> t>.e o«Trrr meat offices are on a *tt» ir \farl;»place just about the position of taQueen Victoria Statue to-day. A l»**» portion of w»» evidently •** Bsrid*for a. Botanic fiarden. and tbtn t» shown close to Barbs'lf.» street «■**•* tery, but on the other tid» of th* Atm and close to this sitr is marked '*A>-»: toir and Cattle Market." City Bouadarsa*. The road kmwn today •» Hmjftf- ; avenue is marked as Lowrr Lfaseajt • and Ellesmere road, while the BtMsr ton road wa* totwmly known ma ffcrr wood road. Sections m rariosw f-*»* tions aro marksd as sites /or r*u«"*-*»' and to-day churches are starting r* these sins. Oarrit-r and L«!in»tsquares »r» shown as to-da t. In t*<» year 1853, the Oty boondarirs «*re w. the east. Barbs does str**t: t't, t*.? sorth, Salisbury street; on the s«1 Antigaa street; and on the soutfe. Si Asaph street. Beyond these rmandar:** is shown as "Town Reaerre," »a>4 W yond this again we find the plan fir A' 4 into rural sections.

On the 1950 plan appear* the aanw "Selwyn street, ' and there it * brgr section marked "Reaerve far State ft Church." Tab is where M. A»#?*•» "• Church lUndi to-day. On tttie ataa there u mo mention of the fceepitai. Her* the site* Ml apart for iMtenie gardens, etc-, are not slews ».t eaekv feat are numbered off into ordinary sei-tiaa* Sections are ■hown north of SaSsta*? street, and the Town Belt is n*w sawwa oa the north, east, and aoath on',*. In the plan of ISS3 the all Waatefy street is bow named Victoria street, a»* tie Town Belt on the weal, Mm hm extended beyond Hagley Park. Schawl* are marked in oa several site*. wtnV the hospital, police • tat ion, aad lae library are marked in oa their pr—■*■■ day sites. Chordbea of all dwawi—■ tion* ar» also marked, is aw io-dtagr.