THE MANCHESTER STREET PROPOSED DEVIATION.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 70, 29 November 1890, Page 2

THE MANCHESTER STREET PROPOSED DEVIATION.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE STAR. Sir,—As I took considerable interest in, and made one or two attempts, to carry out the improvement of Manchester Square when I was Councillor and Mayor, I should like, with your permission, in support of my protest against the blocking up of Manchester Square, the ■main highway through the town, which was contained in my letter published in your iisue of the 18th instant, to point out my views in the matter before a final decision is arrived at as to the mode of effecting the much desired improvements. My proposal, a plan of which I prepared and is no doubt still in the Town Clerk's office, was to enclose four small octagons by low posts and chains, and planting the | inclosure with hardy shrubs, leaving the roads round the Square a chain wide as laid out on the registered plan, not interfering with one main highway, except to contract it from two chains to one chain wide, where it passes through the Square. It has been said that these four inclosures would be " perfectly ridiculous." It is easy to say this, and the expression would no doubt be applicable if the inclosures were surrounded with high fences, but by adopting my plan of using low posts and chains any "ridiculous" appearance would be done away with, and the inclosures would be scarcely perceptible as inclosur«9. If my plan was carried out, and Mr Carthew would erect a wall from the end of his building to my office, so as to hide his empty packing cases, Manchester Square would put on a comparatively respectable appearance, except for the unsightly firebell scaffolding, which I should like i j see removed to a less conspicuous position. I don't think the cost of my proposed improvements would exceed, or amount to so much as £'100, and if the burgesses obiect to its being paid out of the Borough fundi there ought not to be much difficulty in raising it by public subscription, as I think many residents in the outlying districts, who are in the habit of coming into the town, would be willing to assist in so desirable an improvement.—l ana, &c, Saml. Goodbehkre. Feilding, 27th November, 1890.