PERCY'S GARDENS
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Percy's Gardens, in Petone, hitherto - classified • as' a "sjjeriic reserve," has now'blen.vested in the borough .council as.: a.•.municipal reserve, and - -the transfer has greatly pleased-the-coun : : :cil. 'If is: hew possible for the" borough to- provideg-icaretaker's; hoj4.se on.:. |he; : property—an .&etien which.-was; Illegal in respect to a scenic reserve.; • -- ;. ..;' ■ - r-The council .}gs|?-.ev^ning; expressed: ■ it4.tl}aflks ~to-JUe-fiofi.~~J > ..& t Barclay, Acting Minister pf Lands, and the ; Hon. -W- ■Nasb"-fp|7,finciing way qjitpf the difficulty,.' ..... . .■.■;-- '....'... .;-.,... :; ..Later the- council decided ta call ten-. ders for the residence and applications for the .position of caretaker. The council also agreed that Messrs. E, {Jrant L. D, Haggeit, and A. D. Beddie (members of the Native Plant Preservation Society) should be members of The Percy Gardens Committee. . While the. gardens will not . be wholly given pver to native pjapts .it is proposed that, thg bush, and £he fernery area should be developed, entirely as, native planf rqggrve.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 67, 16 September 1941, Page 9
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153PERCY'S GARDENS Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 67, 16 September 1941, Page 9
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