BEAUTIFYING SOCIETY
SUBURBAN SCHEMES. SYDNEY, Dec. 24. Some of our municipal councils are belatedly awakening to. the value and importance (of the “suburb beautiful.” The alderman who advocates the application of town-planning and beautification schemes too often has been regarded as a crank. Now, fortunately for the future, the ideal of civic beauty is steadily winning adherents. One of the pioneers in the movement is the barbourside suburb of Mosman, which has been helped by the desire of the residents themselves to have beautiful homes and gardens. Eaclf year the council offers prizes for the best-kept garden, the most beautiful street, and other means of making the suburb the model for all others. Of the seaside suburbs, Manly alone seems to have tempered municipal government with beauty. Now it is to have a .rival. Bondi Beach, which is under the control of the Waverley Council, is to come under the influence of the new urge. A marine drive above the esplanade will be one of the features. A handsome building is to serve the surfers, and tlic surrounding areas will be laid out artistically in lawns, flower-gardens aji.d trockeries. The whole scheme is estimated to cost £IOO,OOO. but ratepayers will probably consider the money well; spent if some of .the beach’s presefit bleakness of appearance can be lessened.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 January 1925, Page 6
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