SIGN OF THE BELLBIRD

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28550, 1 April 1958, Page 21

SIGN OF THE BELLBIRD

I Building To Be Demolished The dilapidated Sign of the Bellbird at Kennedy’s Bush, on the Summit road, will not be restored by the City Council, but there will be a smaller shelter for picnickers. The council agreed to this last evening, after learning from its reserves committee that it was not economical or practicable to reinstate the building. The stone, i was porous, and the structure I badly cracked in many places, the [committee said.

The fenced-in part of Kennedy’s Bush was gradually being brought to its original state with annual plantings, and in the future it might be necessary for a resident caretaker to look after the area, the committee said. When a picknickers* shelter was built it should be located so that a suitable site was available for a caretaker’s house.

Cr. M. A. Connelly, M.P., said that the roadside halts should be preserved for posterity if at all possible. “I stood aghast at the vandalism that is possible,” said Cr. H. E. Denton of a visit he made to the Sign of the Bellbird. He favoured a small building being put on the site, but he said that unless a resident caretaker was appointed it was useless rebuilding “for the same thing will happen again.** Cr. G. Manning said it might be throwing good money after bad to raise any structure at the Sign of the Bellbird.