A CIVIC AMENITY.
With the Centenary year drawing nearer and in keeping with the general idea of ' improving the appearance of Wellington, the proposal of the City Engineer (Mr. K. Luke), submitted to the works committee of the City Council yesterday, to reduce the area of the Corporation, yards at Clyde Quay, should meet with public support. At the entrance to Oriental Bay and the waterfront drive, unequalled anywhere in New Zealand, ihe destructor plant and the yards are an eyesore that has been long acknowledged as unworthy of the Capital City. It was the opinion of the late Mr. W. H. Morton, when he was City Engineer, that something should be done to make this part of the city, as the gateway to the waterfront, far more attractive, and he proposed a strip of plantation and a suitable fence on this side of the yards. It is a variation of this scheme that is now proposed as a first step to a general rearrangement of the area. The Harbour Board has already shown the way in the extraordinarily successful transformation of a piece of waste land by the Boat Harbour into one of the most'pleasant little rest parks about the city. On such lines there is ample room for improvement in this quarter of Wellington.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 113, 9 November 1937, Page 8
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216A CIVIC AMENITY. Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 113, 9 November 1937, Page 8
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