LIBRARY AND TREE GARDEN

Press, Volume C, Issue 29680, 25 November 1961, Page 18

LIBRARY AND TREE GARDEN

Proposal For Mount Pleasant

Permission has been given by the Heathcote County Council for Miss V C. Joyce, of Auckland, to start an “international library and tree garden” in Mount Pleasant. Miss Joyce told the council she wished to build a house which would be used as a library and for “seminars on some non-political, nongovernmental international subject, and for individual day-long study.” The house would serve as a home for the librariancaretaker. She herself would take this position after she retired. “I have a very useful library already, which will be sunolemenrted.” she said. The grounds, five acres in extent, would be planted with trees of all nations and a grove of native New Zealand trees. She would leave the property to a “legally incorporated institution” providing for it to be continued along the same lines after her death. The site she had in mind was a third of a male north of the Hillmorten settlement in the Mount Pleasant area below the Summit road. She asked the council whether the plan would fit in with its zoning scheme, and was informed that this was so. Miss Joyce said that she was born in Christchurch, and that she had had the idea of the trees from the Foster Gardens in Honolulu and of the library from Mr Averill Harriman's home in Arden. New York.