CAMP SITE CHANGES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 227, 24 August 1938, Page 8

CAMP SITE CHANGES

NEW ROUTE FROM PARK ROAD. j ' •/'•* .\" V ' EXTENSIVE PLAN UNFOLDED. Development work now being carried forward at the motorists 1 camp site adjoining the Esplanade drive and the Awatapu golf Jinks, the home of the Palmerston North Golf Club, is unfolding an extensive scheme for the improvement of this area. Plans have been made for the steady growth ot the facilities, in keeping with the increasing popularity of holiday-making in this manner. Most important in the general ayout, a new route is being provided, making available two entrances in place of the one rather tortuous corner and roadway now employed. Between the Park Load entrance to the Esplanade and the golf links a new entrance has been made, and the roadway now in the course of', construction, leads parallel with the Esplanade drive to the camping area. On reaching that section, the road swings both left to the present entrance and right to circle the grounds and join the present road. jLevelling has been ried out along the entrance drive from Park Road' and within the extended camping area so provided. Novel measures have been adopted for the demarcation of the future residential plots” when the new area is brought into use. Elm, walnut, asli, sycamore, flowering cherry and oak trees have been planted at intervals of about 25 feet fronting the two sides of the circular road at the camp site. These trees will be the boundary posts of the future individual plots allotted to motorists, and the width . varies slightly in relation to the depth or the areas, which is, on an average, about a chain and a half. 1 n addition to providing shelter in years to come, the trees will form excellent boundary pegs, being both immovable and ornamental. Along the drive leading from Park Road cork elms are being planted and this drive, to be 16ft wide, should in time be a most impressive entrance, the cherry trees in the Esplanade adding to its beauty on account of their size. In all, about 24 or 25 chains of new roadway are being formed, and the straight driveway will be about ten chains long. Eight men are employed under a subsidised scheme and their labours are building an asset which should he of great value. The camp site suffered severely in the cyclonic storm of February, 1935, and was then practica.iy denuded of its. shelter of fine old trees, The new area, however, will eventually lead Palmerston North into the position of having one of the most attractive camp sites available to motorists iu this part of the North Island.