CITY RESERVES.
TO THB EDITOR Sir, —Recently one of our overseas visitors passed some critical comments on the architectural structure of our latest pride—the Post Office. I wonder if he has seen the open-air museum of our early settlers! Recently our city reserves experts decided to improve the reserve by scrapping an old fence which must have been an eyesore to all lovers of beauty. After only a few weeks of this improvement we find an iron fence being erected round our “ Josephine.” Surely our “ fathers ” need not be afraid of anyone eloping with this aged lady, unless perhaps some scrap iron hunters. When we effect one improvement, why spoil it with a greater evil than the first? While on the subject, could not the old pontoon be removed to some more appropriate spot, such as Bathgate Park, where it could perhaps be useful if not ornamental? Finally, what purpose is served by the ancient lamp post and the “ cannibal pots ’ ’ ? Since the Japanese have lost the Mahe'no there should be a good market for old scrap iron.—l am, etc., - Clean Up. July 19.
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Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 19
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