MEMORIALISING AND BEAUTIFYING.

Northern Advocate, 25 August 1919, Page 3

MEMORIALISING AND BEAUTIFYING.

HAMILTON'S JOINT SCHEME,

PLANTING TO-MORROW.

Perhaps no scheme suggested in Hamilton has been received more cordially than that brought forward by Mr W. H. Paul, at a recent meeting of the Beautifying Society, for the establishment of a War Memorial Park at Kowhai Bank, and it is gratifying to find that no time is being lost in pushing the proposal to fruition. Plans have been prepared, and these show that a very complete scheme is proposed to beautify Kowhai Bank, which is eminently suited for the purpose, and at the same time pay tribute to the brave men who have made the supreme sacrifice for King and country. The Beautifying Society is procuring trees, and planting and numbering them. At the main gates there will be an Honours Board containing the names of men who have fallen. Each name will be numbered, corresponding to the number, on the tree. People who desire to perpetuate the memory of a friend or relative fallen, and employers wishing to pay a tribute to an honoured employee, may havea tree planted on giving a small donation to the Society. BAND ROTUNDA AND TEA KIOSK The main gates, the effective design for which will be taken from the gates at the King Edward Memorial Park at Manchester, will be halfway between the Traffic Bridge and the cregk Two smaller entrances of the same design are to be made. Provision is made for a handsome band rotunda, which can be utilhed as a tea kiosk. A fountain and a caretaker's artistic cottage are also to be erected. Avenues of trees will be. planted, also flowers and shrubs, and playing fields will be provided for the children.- There will be a concrete boat landing, which will be interesting by virtue of the fact that it will be situated where the first landing was made in Hamilton. Certain sections of the Park have been set aside to enable school boys to plant trees in memory of fallen comrades. This planting was due to take place yesterday afternoon. Itis expected that the boys of each school will keep their own section of the Park in order. INEXPENSIVE AND EFFECTIVE. The Park will be situated* on the bank abutting one of the most beautiful stretches of the Waikato River. The scheme, inexpensive and yet exceedingly effective, is generally looked upon as one of the happiest yet evolved in Hamilton, and the appeal for funds by the Society is likely to be generously responded to. It will be a living memorial to the heroic dead.

At the meeting of the Hamilton Beautifying Society on Monday Mr W. Stevens (borough supervisor) said that his work before coming to Hamilton took him all over the coimtry, and in the smoke-rooms of the hotels at which he stayed, and where a cosmopolitan crowd gathered, he had always heard that Hamilton was the most beautiful town in New Zea-

land. That view,- he considered, was quite justified, and for this happy result the Beautifying Society was largely responsible