PUKEKURA PARK

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12200, 12 March 1934, Page 3

PUKEKURA PARK

FORAIAL HANDING OYER OP ADDITIONS.

LORD BLEDISLO.F.'S EULOGY

(Press Association)

NEAV PLYAIOUTH, Mar. 10

Brooklands, the beautiful estate of sixty acres of the hue Mr. Newton King together with seven and , a half acres of unspoiled natural bush given to the town by Mr T C. List and Mr. C. A. Wilkimon, M.P., was formally handed over today.

The chief Lpoe.ch -w; f. nuyE by Loyd Bleclisloc. Brook lands wlr.cli lias been given to the town by the trustees of Mr. King’s estate, m lieu of a. cash bequest of .CIO,OOO atnl the other gifts of land have been added' to Pukekura Park, being adjoining, making a public park whose beauty Lord B:ed:s.oe said was without peer in the- Dominion.

The estate comprises extensive lawns, flower gardens, glass houses, in addition, a- magnificent puriri. tree said to bo 2000 years old and a Spreading Spanish chestnut beneath which and enclosed is a great greenhouse, where hundreds of people today took. afternoon tea. lu the presence of oevcral thorns-, and people, with the gardens bathed in .sunshine, speeches made by Mr. ’Truby King, on behalf of me family, the Mayor (Mr. E. R. l‘. (0> in-our), Mr. .lames McLeod Chniimau of the Park’ Board-, Mr. S. (I. Smith -VI-P., and Lord - Blebislce. The Governor-General spoke eioqucgtly of tlie beauty of .the flora of New Zealand and appealed lor its' presentation. If was Tie said a source of tremendous value to thy country for .the future. a.s, an attraction to tourist* who must -conic iu hundreds of thousands and bring greater wealth

to the Dominion than any e-f the other great industries. Who foiled a. great tree or \needlesMy * destroyed native, bush destroyed an aesthetic asset of untold' potential value.. , Lord Bleclislop was presented with a. souvenir in the shape of an album of views l , of Brooklands and Pukekura. which he, as a photographer, said he-had never seen equalled!