AREA ROUND MUSEUM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 12

AREA ROUND MUSEUM.

NO PLANTING OF TREES.

SPACE FOR CROWDS NEEDED.

The acting-superintendent of parks, Mr. T. Aldridge, in a report to the City Council on Thursday evening, expressed the opinion that considering the great number of people who assembled at the war memorial on Anzac Day no planting should be done and that the whole area should be reserved for the Anzac Day service. No form of planting would add to the beauty or dignity of the surroundings and he predicted that the form of planting suggested would end in failure. The puriris and phoenix palms would not develop into normally good specimens and in a few years would become stunted and dwarfed and would not add to the dignity of the memorial. If any form of planting was to bo carried put on the area it should be restricted *to poliutukavras, as being suitable to the soil and situation. Those should bo planted in groups along the drive from the Parnell end, past the drive leading from Stanley Street and also singly, to form an"avenuo past the Burns' monument.

Mr. J. B. Paterson, chairman of ih9 Parks Committee, said the crowd on Anzac Day was so great that if any trees had been planted they would have been ruined. In view of this the committee had asked the acting-superintendent for a further report, which was now presented. The report was adopted.