ORIENTAL BAY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 13

ORIENTAL BAY.

' TRIMMING UP THE FORESHORE. A start was mado yesterday with the initiatory work in connection iith tho ' Oriental Bay improvement schomo. \ This is a' work that had claims to attention years ago, and which was urged upon tho'Council somo fivo- years ago, the result being that plans were executed by tho lato Cityi Engineer (Mr. Rounthwaite); but no'worr was over dono. Unfortunately, tho amount'to bo spent on tlio present scliemo the notion that tho pretty, bay on tho eastern foreshoro is being mado tho best of. It is hold by somo that Oriental Bay, which lias nothing much in tho way of a beach \to beast of. (it is very stony, and there are quicl;sands in ono part), lends itself to reclamation, and that by erecting a stout concrete wall somo distanco out from the pr<isont unedifying beach, and filling in tha spaco between, a fine block of land couldi havo" boon provided for city pleasuro grounds, recreation area, or something of an aesthetic chiiractor, which is so lacking in Wellington. All that tho present schcmo provides is an SOft. road from Fitzgerald's! Point (near To Aro Baths) to tho Roseneath Quarry, with a dry pitched wall sloping, from tho road lovol to a low concrete wall, tho top of which will bo lovol with high water mark. The wall. will, bo surmounted by a'fence. Tho widening of tho Oriental Bay road was badly needed in sovoral . places. At Fitzgerald's Point, where it will bo romernberod concroto groins had to be thrown' out to mako a solid base for tho -tramway poles, tho road has always, beon' dangerously, narrow,- and sevoral narrow escapes from accidents- havo occurred at that • point. Similarly, on tho western side of the Bay, the road was narrow enough to causo troublo when the tramway lino was laid, and further concrete groins had to' be thrown out into tho harbour to take the poles. Tho work now commenced will trim up the raggedness of tho Bay to some extent, but will not -by any means make the best uso of Wellington's prettiest soasido suburb. , , , Woods's Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is. Gd." and 2s. Gd. CSII Many a truth is spoken in jest the speaker is afraid he might get' knocked down if he didn't speak it that, way.—"Record Herald," Chicago. . ■ v .