HOW TO BEAUTIFY A CITY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 586, 14 August 1909, Page 13

HOW TO BEAUTIFY A CITY.

1 — i SUGGESTIONS BY JUVENILES. 1 : The CSrristchurch Beautifying Association recently invited pupils from the i. various > .-schools in tho city and ' suburbs to' forward ■ essays. on "How to .mako Olinstehuroh morO Beautiful.' 1 One hundred: and twenty-seven essays were sent mto the examiners (Profos- ■ sor Blunt and Dr. Chilton), who after allotting the pnzo3 report that the suggestions did not vary, much. ■, -The following were the commonest — A f.new railway -station j. should bo built (like the one at Dunedin). ' Smoke oonsumers should be made compulsory. : lelephone wires - should be • run under-!- ; : Iron, and' wood fences) should be replaced by live hedges. V;- Zoological gardens* should be'formed. An-• aquarium' should be -estabhshed.- , ; '• ;, Prirta 'should; be given for. the .best kept gardens. > Householders should be mads to keep neat lawns in front of their houses. A 1 carnage dnvo should bo made along both sides of the Avon. ■ 'More statues should be erected/' - Unoccupied ;sections should bo kopt'tteat,: - rßoxesi should ;bo provided for 6treet-rub-bish. ! ' ■" v-Fountains -should bo. erected, . particularly ■in Cathedral Square; :_■■■: i; .v.-' , ' <-v ,-■■ Two-suggestions which struck the examin-1 ! : .:;- ; eri-'aj-.Blioffin^rMm«^''orißinalityj.werer^.-;-/' ; --..' ■A : (1;) To grow creepers up the- telephone and • tramway, jwsts. ■ (2.) To increase the volume of -tho Avon by running water : into it from tho -. WaimakaTiri. - ,-The ■ wnteTS-alnibst in variably.- ended their; ; eflsajtt ,hy expressing their ■ gratitude for tho work the Beautifying .Association : had : already done. -AVliothor. this,gratitude '-uroso (rom 'ai sense of favours, t0... come',' is not plain.