UNADORNED WELLINGTON.

Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 138, 13 June 1898, Page 2

UN ADORNED WELLINGTON.

TO TJIE EDITOII. Sir — During a recent visit to the South I could not help comparing the work which is being done by the .Scenery Preservation Society hen* and similar societies in Dune-din and Christchureh, and the comparison is not favourable to tho local society. In both tho Southern towns a groat doal more interest is taken in this question by the citizens than is tho case in Wellington, and tho societies receive monetary support from the City Corporations, which our society has been refused, the reason given being that it cannot be done legally ; but if our Council wished to help there is no doubt they could do so. "Wellington is naturally an unattractive town, and vary little has been done to beautify it, and it is high time that the citizens demanded tkat the Corporation made this a leading question, and that the revenue from the Town Belt and other reserves should be used for planting and roading the Belt, aud more especially Mount Victoria, which, instead of being a beauty spot and an ornament to the city, remains as bare aud ugly as it appeared to the lirst settlers, or probably worse, as it was then covered with scrub, and was not then scarred by the quarries with which a later generation of Vandals disfigured it. The planting season has arrived, and a start should bo made at ouce to fence aud prepare the ground, and, instead of the monotonous macrocarpa, deciduous trees should be used, whose varying shades of green in summer and yellow and brown in the autumn would transform the present bare slopes into a pleasintr landscape. A pleasant and almost level carriage drive could be made from the Kilbirme hill to the flagstaff, the view from which, although so little known, is, considered by many to be equal to that seen from Mount Eden, near Auckland. 1 am, &c, Suprema a Situ. "Wellington, 7th June, 18<J8.