TO LYALL BAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 8

TO LYALL BAY.

TO- AFTEBNOON.; : .-."Tlireepenco from-the .city,'twopfflice from '■'. Conrtenay Flaw I" ■ It almost *seems. incredible' ' that WeUington people will bo ablo to get put ■'. to .the.LyaU Bay ;beaci ior the above fares from .this aftornoon. Particularly does the' ' won'dor.of it appeal to old Wellington, residents,' who-knew "Tho Sands"" it was ' nothing.but' a rim for yrild pigs and rabbits, ' and. was deemed to ,be,.about as worthless, ii .' tract of coantryas there, was about Wellington. ■' Twenty years- ago ■it was .-visited on rare. occa- ! mono: by, picnio; parties, who: would jog out in . a" brako or.-., express'. : Having negotiateji the . Constable Street; Kill-rit ,waa 'a hill in those ' ibVys—and 'wound flown the' ;.ioad, this foot .' of which-passes- tho v.Kilb'irnio-Hotel, . or ' avoided it by proceeding; round "The. Eocke" way, one then ploughed ~through, the saud ! which used to drift across the road feet deep uttimes, and at the end of it all feltever so far ', away from Wellington. To sohoolboys it'• was (i liappy hunting-ground. Flax for top-whips was tho chief "attraction,; with rabbit hunting ' with" sticks as. a. sidodiversion. .. ' ■Jjyall Bay. is much nearer to-day. The tun- ' nul through, tho hill has, cut at least a-mile : oft the journey, -which has been dwarfed to insigniflcanco: by-the electric cars. Many will loam -with-surprise': that I.yall Bay Hβ much nearer;to.qity than Island Bay—that the tram. ' terminus to the beach to bo; formally, thrbim open to the -public: this afternoon is GO cbaiiu ; nearer thnn-that at.lsland Bay. - - have-been; made ..to dispatch cars ■ other than.; for: officials , to f the opening ' this :•'■ nftornoon, and. this, evening the firet ■ tend pei-forinance is''to; be given in the new band rotunda on : .the beach.' iLyall Bay boosi tlie finest strotch'of ocean beach in the vicinity nt -Wellington, nnd tho agi-eement made during th Mayoral regime nf the Hon T. W. Eislop boweon the City Council and the late Mr. H. D.'Crawford—which ensured tho construction of/the tramway, Mr. Crawford giving the city an area of, land, for, the purpose of a> park about the middle of the bay—looks like proving an immense boon to tho-city for all time,