PROPOSAL REJECTED

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 22

PROPOSAL REJECTED

The pioposal to build a lock gaiden as a memorial to the pioneer members of the Hutt Knei Board was definitely iejected by the boaid yestoidav. > The jdea was'that the g.nden should be made ;om the club's side of'.the'boundary between the propcity of the Hutt Bowling Club and Ridditord Paik, and that the expense ' should be shared between the Borough Council and the R^er Boaid, the club allowing its ground to be used. Mr. J. Brasell said that as the piopo^ed gaiden was not on the board* land the boird Tv^uld ha\e no jmisdiction o\er it. Ho niOAC'l tliat the pioposal be not cnteitained. , s Tho chairman (Mr.'F. J. Jones) said he thought it Vas tlie duty of membeis ito look at the matter piaely fiom the boanl's point of view. It was not denied that the garden -would l^e a beauty-spot, but at -was to "go on pnvate land, and it uas" not so lnuth a memorial as the beautification nf a pmate institution.' The boaid ought to consider a meinoiial to the pioneci member, but this was neither the1 pWe noi the type that na<» suitable. Mr Mitchell said Jie -would like to see tho mattei held oAor for a full meeting, but the chin man said he could sec no good icT-on foi that comse, and Mi. BiascH't, mption iiih Mined.