AMENITIES SOCIETY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24336, 28 June 1940, Page 4

AMENITIES SOCIETY

COMMITTEE MEETING A meeting of the committee of the Dunedin Amenities Society was held recently, Mr Crosby Morris occupying the chair. City Reserves The chairman reported that the committee of the society had recently paid a visit of inspection to the city reserves and to various streets In and around the city with a view to making recommendations , for further planting or improvements of one kind or another. The secretary, Mr A. C. Cameron, submitted a comprehensive report embodying all the matters noted during the visit of Inspection, with the recommendations made on the spot. These were gone through seriatim. Recommendations were made for the improvement of the children’s playing areas in Jubilee Park, Maori Hill Clear, Chlngford Park, and the leased playing area on the Knox College property facing the Main North road. The last ground was reported to be in a very bad condition, and it was recommended that a longer lease should be secured If possible, and the whole area cleaned up. It was recommended that the undergrowth be cleaned out of the planted area on the left-hand side of Hawthorne avenue looking up from the Queen's drive: the bush In the vicinity of the children's playground at Llttlebourne and Maori Hill clear; and the bush adjoining the road at the junction of Driver's road and Tolcarne avenue. These are all areas where there is a lot of traffic at night and where ’t was felt in the interests of women and children the undergrowth should be thinned out so that the boles of the trees could be seen, It was recommended that the name Chlngford Park be prominently displayed upon the gate. Street Planting It was agreed to recommend the planting of prunus pissardi in Upper Maclaggan stret. native beech at the corner of Serpentine avenue and Canongate, that a row of kowhals be planted on the righthand side of Hawthorne avenue looking up from Queen’s drive, that a dozen kowhals be planted in Duchess avenue on the left-hand side as viewed from the bottom, that Ivy be planted on the large bank in Pitt street, that a line of trees be planted on the left-hand side of Stonelaw terrace looking west, that tree ferns and kowhals be planted on the top side of the Queen’s drive near the bottom of the Newington avenue steps, and that the gaps in the line of trees in Park terrace be filled up.

It was agreed to recommend that a sixfoot margin on either side of View street be grassed and kerbed with a view to having the gaps in the existing line of copper beeches renewed. It was also decided to recommend the erection of a building in the Botanic Gardens for the propagation of native plants. , It was agreed that the society should provide the necessary trees and. the sum of £25 towards the authorised expenditure. Mr Skipworth has authorised the purchase of a further 30 dozen large kowhal trees. Generous Bequest A letter was received from , the Guardian Trust advising the society that the late Mr A. S. Paterson had bequeathed it the sum of £SOO, and had expressed the desire that this sum should be spent in the improvement of some portion of the Totvn Belt of Dunedin. General It was pointed out that many of the seats in the Botanic Gardens were badly in need of painting and repair.—lt was agreed that the City Corporation should look into the supply of water for the fresh-water baths at Woodhaugh. A deputation consisting of the chairman, Messrs D. Tannock and S. P. Cameron was appointed to wait upon the administrator of the Catholic Church in connection with the present untidy state of the Catholic portion of the Southern Cemetery. The committee decided to make another attempt to have Wilkie road tidied up. It was agreed that the Deacons’ Court of First Church be wrltHen to asking it to giant Virginia creeper at the back Of mrns Hall.