CORNWALL PARK.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 204, 12 August 1927, Page 5

CORNWALL PARK.

NEW LANDSCAPE PLAN. COUNCIL’S APPROVAL. In committee last evening, the Hastings Borough Council approved, with minor alterations, the landscape plan ot Cornwall Park, submitted by Mr. A. W. Buxton, landscape architect, of Christchurch, The plan shows a thorough reorganisation of the ground plots and ot the stream flowing through the park, the whole forming a realty beautiful garden picture which, for charm and appointments, it would be difficult to surpass. The stream in front of the curator’s residence will be widened into a big lake, with water lilies floating on the surface. This water will not be accessible to the fowls and the formation and the enlargement will take In part of ihe curator's grounds. On the side of the stream opposite the curator's residence a rock garden is to be established, in a terrace, with water pools amongst the rockery, from which the water will flow into the lake. PADDLING POOL. The stream, which will run in a serpentine formation through the reserve will be terraced along its banks, with a sloping sward towards the lake opposite the children’s playing edge ol the water, and the present area, and occupied by the water fowl, is to be enlarged to thirty times its size, whilst a paddling pool tor the children is to be established in the vicinity.

The present rose garden is to be enlarged and a pergola will lead towards a fountain, which will play in the vicinity ol the stream, whilst in front of the first mentioned lake, near the curator’s garden, a band rotunda is proposed to bo erected, behind which will be a terrace, provided with seats, and planted with plane trees. Nearly in front of the band stand, but on the opposite side of the stream a cross-shaped sunken fernery will grace the scene and along the southern boundary, brick and wire-netting pens will form a continuation of the aviary, ’for the housing of small animals and birds.

The rustic woodwork now enclosing the tennis court will be changed to iron piping and wire-netting. Along the main entrance to the park from Fitzroy Avenue, sand palm ferns will be planted, between and in front of the alignment of the present length of cabbage trees, which will have the effect of making this already lovely avenue into one of the finest and rarest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Altogether the transformation of the lay-nut of the park will form a beautiful picture, of which the citizens of Hastings may feel justly proud.