HAPPY VALLEY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6996, 9 December 1909, Page 9

HAPPY VALLEY

THE-NEW ROAD. OFFICIAL OPENING BY THE ! MAYOR. - Yesterday was a perfect • day for any kind of official "opening," but particularly for an out-door function where formality was riot necessary. ■ The new road, beginning , a,t Wordsworth ' street, running through the Happy Valley and winding up at a bridge near the. Run Round,", is an additional asset to the city, for it is a short cut to the silent spaces of Nature, and another.method of losing the roar of the cars and the sight of the wilderness of.bricks. The official party consisted of the Mayor (Dr Newman), Councillors J. Smith, W. H. Morrah FT Cohen, G. Frost, and Mr J. R. Palmer (Town Clerk), Mr W. Morton (oity engineer), and Mr J. O'Shea (city solicitor). , Mr A. Patterson, assistant engineer, who has been responsible .for the Work, met .the party from the city at the terminal bridge, whither they arrived after a forty minutes' brake drive behind four good horses. '.'..■ » ' "FROSTLAND." Dr Newman spoke very briefly, facetiously reminding the small party that Happy' Vallev, which had been so (failed because of its beautiful contours, its magnificent bush, its babbling creeks m which once rode the gorgeous paraotee duck whose cries'blended with. the. mocking laugh of the native cuckoo, had been greatly "improved" under many years-of local government, .ihere »'as no vestige of bush now. ytiUtarum methods ever succeeded natural ■ beauties, and where once ..the homing horseman pusned his way through tangled growth now ran the fine road by which they htd.conie. The Happy was really a terra incognito until Councillor Frost had spoken- of its charms and the necessity of the road. The district should & called "Frostland." (Cheers.) Any road added to Wellington was an advance. MARANUL . The -partv having posed for the photographer, mounted tne brake-and were driven to Island Bay, the Mayor entertaining them at ;<Tae Blue PatterThen the journey continued round the coast to Maranui in order that ,tne officials might inspect, the new tramway section and the commodious tram waiting room, bandstand, and bathing shed. Great- progress has been made with these works during the recent fine weather. The party returned to town by way of the Queen's Drive.