GARDENS AT AWAPUNI.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 8

GARDENS AT AWAPUNI.

NEW DECORATIVE SCHEME,

Patrons at the summer meeting of the Manawatu Racing Club at Awaptini will not be favoured with the customary display of sweet peas in the driveway leading past the outside motor paddock and the totalisator house, but another beautiful arrangement will take its place. These flowers have occupied the same position lor many years past and the gardener (Mr W. Stevens) has found that the ground requires a change. As a result the familiar show will give way to another decorative scheme in which delphiniums will form the background, and no doubt the display will be as brilliant as of old. The gardening staff has also been recently engaged in planting trees along the drive-way and in the outer motor paddock, the varieties including tulip trees, limes, silver birch, chestnut, angulata, poplar, and liquid ambar, and no doubt in the future patrons at local race meetings will appreciate the shade the trees will offer, while their presence should do much to beautify the paddock when the fence, which at present backs on to the paddock on the left-hand side of the drive-wav as one enters the course, is removed, this action being contemplated by the committee of the club. Probably the next matter confronting the attention of the grounds committee is the furnishing of additional car accommodation, for it has on occasion proved to be insufficient for the patrons who 1 attend the fixtures.