BEAUTIFYING SUMNER BEACH

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 230, 27 August 1935, Page 3

BEAUTIFYING SUMNER BEACH

Many schemes have been proposed, not only in New Zealand but also elsewhere, to beautify cities and suburbs. The latest scheme originates from the borough of Sumner, and was outlined to a meeting of the council by a deputation, states the Christchurch Press. This allows for raising £30.000 to provide picnic pavilions (to keep the trams full on wet days), an aviary, a pond of goldfish, a children’s paradise of swings and slides, Roman rings, a merry-go-round, up-to-date bathing sheds, and sheltered scats. To brighten the town on Saturday nights a mouth-organ band of the boys of tbe borough will bo formed. Tbe sea will be kept in the estuary all day by floodgates, and a stone bridge will link Clifton to South Brighton. Everyone, it is hoped, will give freely, as all Canterbury will benefit from the proposal, and visitors from Auckland. ’Wellington, the West Coast, and from the south will he attracted by the beauties of the “borough beautiful.” If the money is raised, and if the work is finis lied as planned, an elevendav gala will he held at Christmas, and the whole construction will provide employment for many of the workless of Christchueh. This information has been circulated in Summer and is under tbe auspices of a body said to represent the shopkeepers of the borough.