REMOVAL OF TREES IN SQUARE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 20 July 1937, Page 8

REMOVAL OF TREES IN SQUARE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Your correspondent “Visitor” may well express astonishment at the City Council’s work of destruction in the Square. One of our city’s finest assets is being ruined because members of the council have apparently no conception of its value nor appreciation of its beauty. Alany cities have beautiful gardens—they are common enough—but very few can afford their citizens a sheltered retreat in the midst of the busy city where calm and sunshine can be enjoyed in privacy. The councillors are no doubt such busy men that they have never experienced the relaxation of a seat in the Square on one of Palmerston’s innumerable windy days. It is a matter for deepest regret that our council is so blind to the real value of our Square, and one can only view with indignation what is at present being perpetrated. There are other departments in which the council’s services are open to criticism. AVliy don’t our buses run to timetable, or, is, other words, why can a timetable not be devised that our buses can run to? Seeing that they do not do so. one might at least expect the council to provide seats for intending passengers at the more frequented stopping places. A scrapping of the ticket machine would assist the big bus to keep to time. It was remarked recently that the private circulating libraries, of which there are a number in the city, were effecting the membership of Palmerston’s so-called “public” library. And no wonder. Seventy-five per cent, of the books ought to be destroyed and then there would be very few books on the shelves, as the books by popular authors that one wants to read seem never to reach the shelves at all.— 1 am, etc., RATEPAYER.