lhe > Works Committee has given instructions for the unformed portion of "Wordsworth (street, between ’ Durham Street and Harper Street, to bo ploughed, levelled and sown with grass. It can then bo used as a playground for children, leaving snllicient room for a footpath on the north side, A pica, for rose plots in the eitv was made last night by Councillor A. Flesher. who said (hat he had seen' English and American illustrations of rose gardens in cities, and lie thought that, some of the diy plots could = be planted with roses. The chairman of the Reserves Committee (Councillor J. R. Haywardi repliecl that the head gardener (Mr Wickens) iiad reported that anywhere near asphalt or roads the dust from tlm road killed the roses, and the plan was impraelicablo.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12407, 27 August 1918, Page 3
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