PRESERVATION OF BEAUTY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 6

PRESERVATION OF BEAUTY

' TO THE EDITOR. ■ Sir, — May I also trespass on your space 'to fay with what pleasure I have read Mr. Castle's warning about the tr^ifs round "the old Government House, and tho thousand pities, that it Would ho if any of them were destroyed. Wellington it, so very devoid of that kind of beauty, but, 1 much fear, unless a I fence i& ,*?rect«d «o as to prevent ehil'd'ren and the .public from getting at them, that when the workmen are thero they will be greatly damaged, if not killed. Tho suggestion of dsciduous" trees in the city reserves "is also a i very happy one. r The beauty of Christchurch is principally owing to its trees, and the autumn tints and fresh. . spring ara lovely there. 'Why elipuld , we not have them, as well as our lovely harbour eoenery? P should also like to see wooden seats, dotted aboul on the high roada, -with a- li'co or t'lVO-^-Bo ofiun found in England, and sucL. a boon to the aged— and a.t*the end ci Tinakoriroad, near the ae-a, seme deciduous trees and wattle, and » seat or two would benefit mariy. At Kelburne, ako. trees and seats, would bo delightful.— l am, etc., A LOVER>OF SCENERY, i TO THE EDITOa. Sir, — In rour . issue of this evening, under tho above heading, and signed by Mr. John Castle, is a letter calling attention to what is being done in the way of destroying -a lot of trees in the old Government Houeo grounds. While agreeing with the writer that if it is a- 'great pity that one of the few places in the city in which thero are tiee3, these should havo to be destroyed in order to make room for buildings, 1 may point out that very few -of tho deciduous trees could be removed, unless at, an expense and , risk that would not b& justified. I cannot see why some of the vege^atiou in tho Bowen-street frontage ehould not be left, notwithstanding that that street ia to be widened. In the grounds is. a specimen of a ! most beautiful variety, if not new species, of eucalyptus or gum. This tre« has a bright" scarlet flower. On Saturday morning last it had a considerable number of flowerc, and was looking very handsome. On Monday morning, when I saw it, iliere were* only a few odd bits of blooms, large branches bad been broken to get at the flowers, and the bush has been quite spcilt. This, I am sure, was done by come "' uncouth " persons who attended the "function" on Saturday afternoon. It does seem, strange that Wellington, the city that can least afford to ioGe the little vegetation of an ornamental kind, 'should have tho worst class cf dc,Etructivc6, and • all because offenders, when caught ,and , baled before the ciiminal H.M. 1 , are admonished only, told if they come up again they' would get. the stick (lolly.) Until this style of thing iv altered it will he of no use to' plant any ornamental shrubs or trees. • — I anij etc., USE THE BIRCH. Wellington, 2(&th March, ISI2. Tho Central Mission children's choir, under the leadership of Mr. \V. E. Howe, will lender Bpecial selections of unniversary muhio at tho evening servico in. tho *'w Theatre, Manners-street, to morrow.

The Seventh Day Adventists, having disposed of their college and farm at Pukekura, Cambridge, intend to establish a college farm closer to Auckland,. The manager of fhe Undaunted ,Gold Mining Company, Ltd., reports a totum of 82oz for March ; water good. "Professor Honri Bergson, as a Present D<iy Leader of Thought" is tho subject announced by tho Rev. W. Jellie, 8.A., tor his Sunday evening sermon in the Unitarian Church, Ingcstre-street. The annual general meeting of tho Pakeha Hockey Club will be held on Monday next Holiday excursion tickets will be issued \on the railway during the holidays. The dates are advertised in this issue f A special meeting of tho Wellington Retail Soft Goods Employees' Union will be held on Tuesday ovoniug. A notice to occupiers of factories is advertised in this issue. "God's Almighty Hand," "» harvest cantata, which was composed by Granvillo Humphreys, ' F.R.C.Q., last year, is to bo rendored by tho Courtenay-placo Congregational Church Choir at the close of the ovening service to-morrow, Mesdames F. Crosßley and A. M. Lewis and Messrs. Phipps and Okoy will sing the solo and duet items. An offering will be taken on behalf of tho choir funds. The Donald M'Lean-street Sunday School will celebrate its-thirty-secorid anniversary to-morrow. The ' Revs. J. G. Chapman, E. O. Blamires, and J. Southern (newly appointed ministers) will be the preachers. A tea and public meeting will be hold on Monday., ' Mrs. Moore notifies in our advertising columns that she will, resume daucing classes on 15th April. Anniversary services in connection with the Northland Primitive Methodist Sunday School will be held to-morrow, when tho scholars, assisted by choir, will render special festival hymns. The annual tea and public meeting, will be held on Tuesday! Tenders are invited by the Mines Department fop the supply aid delivery of machinery and ironwork.