RESERVES IMPROVEMENT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 149, 25 June 1915, Page 3

RESERVES IMPROVEMENT

Improvement and fencing is to be carried out by the City Council at the eastern end of the Oriental Bay Reserve to provide a ground' for the use of womep and children only. The Reserves Superintendent has also been given autho. rity to proceed with the erection of fences at both ends of the Town Belt section 19, Berhampore, in order to allow the planting of the proposed women and children's reserve to be undertaken. The Reserves Committee < further re« ported last night in connection with the beautification of reserves, that it had received an offer from Messrs. F. Cooper, Ltd., to plant a, 60ft diameter bed of native shrubs, preferably in the Zoo grounds, and the offer " had been referred to a sub-committee for report. Intimation had been given by the Wellington Zoological Society that Messrs. Horton and Sons, of Pahiatua and Hastings, had presented fifty selected roses for planting in the Zoo grounds. The matter had been referred to a sub-com-mittee to deal with. A .site in the Zoo grounds was to be reserved for the formation of a rosary to the southward of the prcfint waders' aviary. This year's cost will not exceed £50, and the Rose and Carnation Club undertakes to plant and maintain the rosary. An enquiry was held by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., yesterday afternoon, into the circumstances of the death of an infant child found in a house in Cam-bridge-terrace. A verdict was returned that the child was stillborn.