THORNDON RECREATION GROUND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 14

THORNDON RECREATION GROUND.

TO TITR EDITOR. Sir,— Your correspondent, "A.IVP V " writing in WddnN«My'« Post, made '„*« nssertion that \ho SydMjwiircet. K nlly . pnrb of lho Botnnlc«\ « H rdcn grounds wns formerly n. comolory restive, but forgot to state that this only applies to a narrow strip at tho bottom or north end of the gully. The duty of nil ciuzons is to strongly protest agninat ti m proiwyd vandnlism, ns |]>o whole nw* now available is too smnll for n Notanio Garden such n» ought to exist, hero, in which the visitor and (student, mmH find growing, nnmod mid kbelled, ivinoBentntives i of the major port-ion of ilm flora of New Zoftlond, vliich is becom. ing Rrnduaily extinct, fl 4id now is nl. most .completely m nt (til points within a radius of nbout twenty miles from tho city. With regard Io this particular cully, if money hnd been forthcoming no douiifc it would hnvo been imrnoved; but us it haa been staled as an axiom tlui. B*rlW!8 * r I W ! !8! 8 a M 9Uistle in Iho mnnufaclui« of brlch«, so )» money ,'or gnrdeni, 'Dm claim of Iho suilnbility of tliis spot 'for recreation on account of J.ts Micltciod position weighs infinitely more \n favour of the garden eldo of tho question for ita retention, Whether nccidontnlly or othoiwtee, hipplly ths Rilo of the llotwiicnl Gmdena »* «, wholo ia ihe best that could h.ivo been chosen for shell cr ngninst the (onstnnt winds of Welliniiton, and Ihix sec tion of it is especially so. Tho pioposn! if carried out would only me,m tho formntion of n Inno oi; incnuc - length without breadth -and lho line lion of a. now BWainp nt n higlirr Imcl from Its constant Ko,iku ( !,o Ity (ho dj.imago of tho hillsides thnt r.ius'cil (ho in^ sent swamp. Assuming thnf. spnoe co«!d bo found or made fol 1 games, nol only would tiio flattened nren, bo I<>M, but tlie \\lm)o of iho fiurrounding . sides »oon vould lio Utterly spoilt by loallrss sinvi.itm . Wnnt of tnale nnd lho bump of deiiim-. tlveness nrc the proli.tlilc cliiuarloiisnos ot tho instigators of this scheme, nnd whilst, it is possible to nndoiMnnd (ho clnp-lrnp of a jioliiiciil onndidnU-'s mhi»caoy, and to foe-1 some dympndiy vii Ii honwt ciithnsinMi. il is "to be" hopod that the ratepayers will, ns in tho pel, sit on tho propo«,il, nnd ne\or nliot\ this doserrntion to tuko place. Common setiso nuugeßin ooni]ilolion of Kelbnrno Pnvk nt n lower level, sulllciont to supply the spoil nece^my to 111 I \i]i tho pully sepnrntinc; il from Mounl-xiicit south, Co B 0 "-' 1^ >'id of Its pto«ont \msinhllinrMi but d> borrow AJPOOO lor Sydtipyslrepl nnd £9000 for Kclbninc, nnd n few othov simil.ir buiuo lor other spots, ii moro thnn vnlop.ivor* will 101. erntc, If nil idn o( hyAnej-Mieoi is nbiindoned, they mlpht n^iie'lo liti.nnp Kelburnc."— l nm, clo,, A NA'UVI-. Wellington, R2nd Kcbiu.irj