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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 252, 21 July 1938, Page 14

An endeavour is being made by the Wellington Beautifying Society to improve Blackbridge Road, a portion of which is the main approach to the Otari Open Air Plant Museum, and which, besides being narrow and tortuous is considered by the society to lie rather neglected. Thp society has a scheme of improvement and the Government has promised the services of six men for six weeks to remove the noxious weeds and prepare one side of the road for planting. The Wellington City Council has been asked to undertake the widening of the road and to do it before the winter is over so that the spoil may consolidate before the planting. The suggestion of the proposer of the scheme, Mrs. A. J. Du Pont, is that an avenue of kowhais be planted and that if no history Is attached to the name B'ackbridge Road, that it be renamed after the late Dr. Leonard Cockayne.