WHERE NATURE HELPS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 8

WHERE NATURE HELPS

If there should be any doubt in the minds of citizens as to the value of the work done in recent years towards the bcautification of Wellington and its environment, let them turn their memory in retrospect towards the older Wellington, assisted, as it may be, by the reproductions of old photographs that appear from time to time. In its natural position Wellington richly deserves its motto "Suprema a Situ," not only from the commercial standpoint, but because the site provides an unsurpassed framework of hill and valley and water, needing only a clothing of Nature's own covering of tree and bush and flower to complete the picture. Much has been done already to robe the bare hills, but much more remains to be done. There are many scars of man's handiwork designed to make a city set on hills habitable that might well be healed, or at least hidden, by flower and shrub. It was one of the few compensations of the depression that the surplus of available labour could be applied to beautification, and the tributes paid to the reserves department of the City Council by the president of the Wellington Beautifying Society,, at its first annual meeting last night, were well deserved. The work done by the society since its formation and the work it hopes to do in the future were attractively set out in the discussions, and the ideal of the society is one that should commcnd itself to the citizen and enlist his warmest support. 'lhcre is no expenditure of time, energy, and money that promises to win a fuller;and nobler reward.