OUR RESERVES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14381, 26 November 1908, Page 4

OUR RESERVES.

Sir, —I haven'oad with interest an article in a recent .number d tho Daily Times describing tlvs pirks in Mine American cities. This encouragcs me to five expression to somo thoughts concerning, our own parks which have for eome tims been simmering in my mimd. The reserves should •ho planned so that Ihoir beauty may bo open to all, no tljat overy ptisser-bjf.,may s?o the lovely green swards and be;'glad. The Octagon and t.he Ma.rkst Reserve answer to this demotion. But of what uaa to the majority of the citizens is a reserve which is.shut, oft' from public gaze by a dusty hedge or a thick screen of shrubs?; I regret to eeo that a hedge lias been planted on that .'side of the Oval fronting the A-ndoreou's Bay read, and trust it will not be continued. The same lias been done at the North lind in .the reserve adjacent to the liotanical Gardens. My idea would bo to make the reserves along the Loith and the Botanical Gardens one handeomo park, .with the fewest .possible obstructions m the way of dusty and ug ly fences. In Hydo Park, Loiiilcn,'. and tho Edinburgh Links and Meadow Reserves sheep are kept to eat down the grass. Wiry should not the Siime be clona in ours, ciipeoiallv on somo parts of the Town Belt, which would then be available for golf and other sparfe.—l am, etc., ' R. S. Stepiienso:;.