SQUARE BEAUTIFYING.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1360, 5 July 1911, Page 5

SQUARE BEAUTIFYING.

REMODELLING FOUNTAIN . RESERVE. MR BLACK'S PLAN TO BE ADOPTED. In aooordanoe witli his notice of motion Or Clausen moved at the Oonudil meeting last night tlmt the Oonnoil reconsider the plan proposed by Mr Blaofe for remodelling the Fountain Sqnare. In speaking to his motion Or Olan--8611 eaid the Fountain Sqnare had not had the same treatment as the other Sq'nnres. as very little of the Borongh rates had b*en spent on it, The present work was done by the Beautifying Society. Mr Black was almost snre the work could be done for £IOO. Or Mowlera seconded the motion, saying taat a well known landscape garduer, who had reoently visitsd the town, said the plan oonld not be : improved on. A CONNOISSEUR. Or Haydm desited that the motion be altered to read "plain or ' amended plan." It lie was anything lie wax a connoisseur of lnmlsuDpe i gardening and Jib was convinced that a better plan could be made. ] Mr Blauk could make a better plan, bot as long as he was backed np by oonnoillors, who bad no idea o( ■ beauty, he wonld uot do so. The strnigh paths were simply hideous. Or Beale supported adopting the < present plan. OB STUBBS URGES ECONOMY. ! Or Stnbbs said the Onrator had ; told him the plan was the best he ( oonld do under the circumstances, ( He felt, however, that a comparative ( remodelling might be takeu op at. a ] Email cost, including the readjust- ] rneut aud planting of the trees, ( whioh weve now btirilv phced, tnr- ( fing over the present spots where the trees were. He did not lavon'r tin-owing money away on the square, and there worn a good many ratepaveis who felt th'at the Square was quit? attiactivo at present. If tho 1 work was to be done, however, he \ supported adopting Mr Black's plan. Or Olanson, in reply, said th< cost was not very groat and when the \ ratepayers ssw it carried out they would agree that the money had b' fin well spent. The motion was carried. ]