THE MUSEUM RESERVE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22519, 13 March 1935, Page 5

THE MUSEUM RESERVE

TO THE EDITOR .

bus, —1 can abide the sight no longer; unfortunately my window looks out on the " ill-cared-for Museum Reserve." To use a vulgar expression, the reserve, is " a sight tor sore eyes," and a trap for old and young, with its still remaining cut-down tree stumps and holes (left where other stumps have been grubbed out and the hole not filled in). I know of a case of a person over 80 years who, owing to failing eyesight, fell heavily over a stump and had to call in medical help. Now, Sir, could you not invite the Mayor and councillors of this beautiful city to visit this North Dunedin beauty spot to see the ill-kept grounds, the piles of dirty papers lying about, the stumps and holes and old seats dragged about from pillar to post by all and sundry? To add to all this, the peace of the Sabbath is broken for hours every Sunday afternoon by the bawling and screaming of raucous-voiced would-be saviours of "God's own country." J heard a detrimental remark made by a visitor from Christchurch about the appearance ot our Museum Reserve, and it hurt. Are there no young unemployed people in our midst who would gladly earn a few nonce each morning picking up the papers?—l am, etc., A Lover of the Beautiful. Dunedin. March 12.