THE PARK FENCES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19986, 22 July 1930, Page 13

THE PARK FENCES.

TO THE EDITOB 0» THE PEEbS Sir, —I have a print of Hagjey Park — the home of the Lytteltons, a lovely piece of England's woodland, with such a glorious countryside to look upon. No wonder the founders oIV Christchurcb came ;here with such sentiments. With such love of the beauty of the English woods warm witjiin them, no wonder their feelings and memories of the Old Land formed such delightful expression in the planting of our Hagley Park. How intensely these men .must have loved their work. Look with what care and thought they did their planting, with their eyes on the future, and lookin, far beyond the measure of their own lives. They planted with the thought oi what beauty there would grow up for the generations coming after them' to look upon and enjoy. Can we who love the memory of these thoughtful men think of reinforced concrete posts amongst, the trees they saw planted? It is enough to make Bowen and 'Harman and the others turn in their graves. A wicked piece of vandalism, which should not be by- the people of Christchurch without a strong protest. Then to put the . fence behind the first row of trees will spoil the beauty of their plans for a glorious walk beneath the shade of the trees" growing by the sides. of the pathways. A walk beneath the beech trees, so loved by. Harman. would lie spoiled by the line of concrete posts. Then what of the glorious lime trees, on the south-western boundary of Hagley Park? "It makes my blood boil to think qf a row of concrete, posts amidst such a wealfch of beauty \which • the.trefcs . are .in. early, spring and in their : glory of autumn tints. - •-

; I wish" I could • see the Board devoting a' little more thought unseen beauty of the Parks, unseen

because "the beauty is not revealed. A little careful pruning of the lime tree avenue would make ii glad and glorious sight to look upon—such a leafy archway as lime trees make would be a picture of loveliness never to be forgotten, and to make this lime tree walk would only be "carrying out the ideas of the men whose forethought and fine ideals should be respected.—Yours, etc., H. G. ELL. July 21st, .1930.