CITY RESERVES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1915, Page 4

CITY RESERVES

PLANTING OP TREES RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE. Several important matters affecting the City Reserves were before the City Council last evening in the report of the Reserves Committee. The receipts of the reserves during the current financial year were : Town Belt rents £690, fees £558— total £1248 ; the expenditure, salary £238, plants £158, material £813, insurance, telephone, and sundries £412, labour £4841, keep of horses £117— total £6579. The estimates were £1438, and the^ revenue £10,050. The following recommendation of the City Engineer with reference to the treeplanting operations for the coming year was adopted: "That as far as possible the operations for the coming year be confined to those areas which have been grubbed so as to have them thoroughly freed of gorse, and that the planting operations be restricted to filling up the blanks, and vdlso planting the Tinakori Hills, and also to form a nursery ' at Town Belt sections 7 and 8 for the preparation ofliardy native trees for planting on these two sections. With the object of providing manurestorage places throughout the city reserves, for the repair and upkeep' of the playing grounds, the following depots are to be established : — Anderson Park, Newtown Park, Wakefidd Park, and Kilbirnie Reserve. Authority was granted for the purchase of the Fire Brigade Department's Merryweather fire motor, for the sum of £350 fully altered and equipped) iii order to facilitate cartage of manure and soil to the various depots. The planting of Reef-Street proposal, brought forward by the Island Bay and Berhampore Electors' Associations, was referred to the Town Belt Forester for report. The dead trees at Mersey-street are to be replaced. The Superintendent of Reserves has been instructed to report on the proposal to form a women and children's reserve on the Town Belt se6tion. A proposal of the Wellington Rose and Carnation Club for the formation of a rosary at Newtown Park has been referred to the City Engineer and the Superintendent of Reserves for a report, and Messrs. Fox and Remington, of the club, are to be ' invited to discuss the matter with the officers. Instructions have been given for the asphalting of the footpath on the north side of Newtown Park.