WORK IN BAYSWATER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 673, 27 May 1929, Page 10

WORK IN BAYSWATER

RESIDENTS’ PUBLIC SPIRIT BEAUTIFYING DISTRICT Residents of Bayswater to the number of 32 assembled on Saturday afternoon to work at the beautification and improvement of their district. The movement was started by the Bayswater Ratepayers’ Association and is being supported by several regional committees. As a result of the arrangements made on Saturday, volunteer gangs of 18 men will work every fine Saturday afternoon for the rest of the winter on footpath improvement and roadside beautification, each man doing the work he likes best. During the summer the gangs will work in the evenings. On Saturday a rockery was formed at the corner of King Edward Avenue and Marine Parade, and the footpath on the western side of the main read was levelled off in preparation for tarring. By the end of the day the rockery was ready for later planting, and about six chains of footpath was ready for dressing. All materials were supplied by the Takapuna Council, which has undertaken to provide everything necessary.

Mr. J. W. Hayden, Deputy-Mayor, complimented the workers on their public spiritedness, and Mr. Blampied, president of the Ratepayers’ Association, also spoke. All the residents of Bayswater have been circularised and nearly all have enrolled themselves to help in the formation and maintenance of the plantation now growing beside Quinton Park, which was presented to the borough by Mrs. Caugliey Smith a few months ago.