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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1425, 22 June 1899, Page 16

The City Engineer is of opinion that trees may, without unduly interfering with the ordinary traffic, be planted at distances of from, say, 100 to 132 feet apart in the following city streets viz.— Featherston street (north end), Bunny street, Whitmore street, Bal'nne street, Stout street, Thorndon quay (east side and part of west side), Lambron quay (part of east side to Stout street), Sydney street, Bowen street, Bohc-.i c *reet, Wellington terrace (part of east side south from Woodward str-jff), Woolcombe street, Courtenay place, Clyde quay and Oriental bay (when widened), Marion street, Constable street Mein street and other main streets m . oca’ity. Hawker street, Majoribanks street and other streets in that locality. In addition to these, there are, of course, he says, many other streets, too numerous to detail, 'in the outlying districts of the city and in other residential parts, where the traffic is relatively light, which might be so dealt with, and with much better chance of success than in the low-lying streets. It will be for an experienced horticulturist to say what chance there may be of getting any class of tree to flourish and grow to maturity in the reclaimed land. The Engineer strongly favours street planting wherever it is possible to do the trees justice.