VERY BELATED!

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 31, 1 August 1923, Page 10

VERY BELATED!

Improving liners? Living Conditions

Out of the beneficence of its heart (and its thumping profits) the Westport Coal Company has determined: to brighten up living conditions in those dismal human abodes, Denniston and Millerton.

It has commissioned the Superintendent of Reserves at Dunedin, Mr. Tannock, to visit these places and ascertain whether certain improvements are possible. As a result of Mr. Tannock's report, the company has commissioned Mr. Goudie, who was formerly in" charge of the Tourist Reserves at Cornwallis Park, as Forester and Superintendent of Amenities, for the purpose of carrying out a scheme of tree' planting, both for beautifying and providing timber for future necessities. -

It is also the intention to provide facilities for swimming in Borne of the company's dams, and also playgrounds for the children, and tennis courts and cricket :and football grounds.

Mr.-Tannock estimates that 1000 acres might be made available for tree planting near Millertoh, and a site near the dam *#t r Millerton is recommended as a nursery. Arcadia is evidently in s%ore for the denizens of -these .melancholy holes. ■ •-' ■■■ ■.■■.:■'■•'' :.....' : Now who ;■ will;start* at-the job of converting Blackball: into a*. Utopia?