AMENITIES SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 20486, 17 May 1930, Page 11

AMENITIES SOCIETY

MEETING OF EXECUTIVE The committee of the Dunedin Amenities and Town Planning Society met in the Expansion League’s board ■v' yesterday, Mr Crosby Morris presiding. The principal business was to consider the winter programme. _ The lion, secretary of the Clair Improvement Association wrote with reference to having the battery site at St. Clair made into a public reserve, stating that he would submit, the matter to the next meeting of his executive. The Town Clerk, Dunedin, wrote stating that the matter of advertising hoardings on Government property was one in which the City Council had no legal control. The Crown was exempt from the operation of the city by-laws. A communication to the manager of the Railway Advertising Department would possibly help to restrain its use of railwa/y lands for advertising purposes.—The chairman remarked that advertising on railway land was increasing.—lt was decided that a deputation should wait on the Minister of Railways, when he is next in Dunedin to protest against unsightly hoardings and advertisements on Government buildings and other property. —It was also decided to bring the matter forward at the meeting between members of Parliament and representatives of local bodies prior to the meeting of Parliament.

The Town Clerk, Dunedin, wrote, regarding the erection of hoardings at Hangman’s Gully, stating that the council recently took steps to have the signs painted out, and had obtained an undertaking from tbo occupier of the land that the i/.gns would be obliterated by a given date. * The hon. secretary was instructed to write to the railway engineer suggesting the necessity of improving the appearance of the ground at the corner of Rattray and Cumberland streets. The banks of the overbridge at Hanover -‘reet also required improvement in the way of planting. The council agreed, with the sanction of the Railways Department, to take in hand the bank facing tbo highway, and to ask the department to improve the other bank.

it was decided to improve the appearance of the bank on the Mam South road near the cemetery with flowers and spreading plants. A suggestion that trees should bo planted on the Anderson’s Bay road, on the section from the railway to the gasworks, was approved, the trees to bo planted on the boy side of the road.

Steps are to be taken to improve Ross’s corner, Anderson’s Bay. It was resolved that the. Architects’ Society bo asked to request architects’ assistants to prepare pier ; for the beautifying of the corner, a prize of £P, 2s to be awarded. Messrs J. Wilson, D. Tannock, and J. Somerville were appointed to adjudicate on the plan; Royal crescent, St. Kilda, was described by the chairman as a wilderness nowadays.—lt was decided to ask tho St. Kifda Council to level" and plant in grass two blocks (as a start), the society to supply trees. Tlve Chairman reported that a number of the ash trees on Eglinton road were doing no good, and some wore dead.—Mention was made of the objection by residents to trees blocking their view.—After a short discussion it was decided by a majority, to plant poplars, it being explained that these would in no way obscure tho view.

The City Corporation is to bo requested to continue the clearing out of a certain number of evergreen trees on the track from the t • of Stafford street to the Queen’s Drive. Appreciation was expressed of the work that the council has already done in this way.

it was decided to undertake the clearing and planting in cabbage trees and flax a portion of the belt near Young street.

It was resolved:—“That this society desires to enter an emphatic protest against the granting of a permit for the construction of a speedway in a residential area in South Dunedin, and would like to point out to the City Council that the necessary authority to refuse a permit is provided in the recent amendment of the Town Planning Act.”