DOMAINS BOARD.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 6 September 1930, Page 5

DOMAINS BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. The Domains Board met yesterday. Present—Messrs George Harper, F. George, H. Kitson, R. B. Owen, H. Eaglesome, S. A. Orchard, W. T. Foster, W. H. Winsor, A. Freeman, and Ore. Annie I. Fraer aud M. E. Lyons. The Audit Office returned the Board's balance-sheet audited and certified correct.

The Curator (Mr James Young), reported that the wire fonco on Riccarton avenue had been removed and re-erected on Hagley avenue,vand that the fence on Hagley avenue had been completed to the corner of Moorhouse avenue. Field pipe draining had been done in the North Park, and tho cultivated area near the tennis courts had been drained. Trees had been pruned in North Park, and tho land near tho Armagh 6treet gates had been laid down in grass. Trees bad been transplanted in the North and South Parks. Rhododendrons and other trees and flowering shrubs had been transplanted from the Art Gallery site to' new positions iji various parts of the gardens. Miss Victoria Sommers had presented some seeds from Samoa, and Mr Taylor, Slater street, had given a collection of valuable gladioli. Tho report wa3 received aud it was decided to thank Miss Sommers and Mr Taylor. The Gardens and Parks Committee recommended that a pedestrian pathway be constructed on tho eastern side of Victoria Lake to the Armagh street gates on the southern sido and following tho outlino of the present pathway, tho same to be of a width of six feet to be proporly formed and screened similar to tho recently re-formed pathway leading to tho Fendalton road entrance. Tho Curator had been instructed to lay a drain from tho hollow to the north of Victoria Lake with a view to carrying off quantities of storm water lying there, the expense to be partly defrayed from tho contribution of £ls by the Hagley Golf Club. Tho Curator had explained his reasons for planting American redwood in the horso paddock; the former trees practically had died out. Mr Young hoped shortly to effect better drainage of the horse paddock to overcome the objection due to water lying on tho ground. The report was adopted. On the motion of Mr Kitson, seconded by Mr Foster, it was decided to rescind tho resolution authorising the purchase of a motor-mower.