A WINTER GARDEN
SOCIETY STILL HOPES
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The horticultural societies (New Zealand and Wellington), the reserves Committee of the City Council, and the Wellington Beautifying Society have for years past hoped and planned for a winter garden, for Wellington is now the only main centre without one,/ but"nothing beyond disappointment has eventuated so far. I
Mr. G. C. Beckett made a new proposal at the meeting of the Beautifying Society last night: that the society should ask the City Council to approach the Government with a request that mateiials from the Exhibition buildings, and particularly the Australian pavilion, which is largely glass, should be earmarked for a winter garden when the war is ended and the buildings are to be demolished. He suggested that the rounded hill in Central Park would be an ideal site for a winter garden. V
Members considered the idea a very [ood one.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 5
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150A WINTER GARDEN Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 5
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