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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19812, 2 December 1919, Page 8

The Superintendent of Parks and Gardens reported to the City Council Hint on a recent visit to the Bottle ; a d cservo ß ho H f V Hnd that tllero had hoe, a fire on Hothesay Road, opposite the plantation. A quantity of gorsc and dry pine needles along' the load .fronting the Infectious ]>&*■*<. Hospital had for some time been a menace to the plantation. Although he hrc crossed the road and penetrated the council's plantation it had apparently died out without doing anv damago to the trees. Th c superintendent further reported that the iron shed in the plantation was appnrentlv bemused as a target by persons shooting 1,7 the locality. Tho IWves Committee of the council has given instructions that notices, warning the public, against tho destruction of the council's property, were to be erected in the reserve. A Christ church resident who returned Iron a visit to Ha worn yesterday savs that he was deeply impressed by the. prosperous appearance of South J'aranaki. Jn Hawera itself lie saw no sign of a vacant shop or a vacant house, and, in addii-Mn, noticed a largo number of houses in course of erection It was somewhat astounding to find that the value of an ordinary fivo or six-roomed hotiso on, say, a " quarteraero of ground, tvhs higher than the value of a similar class of liouso in the immediate suburbs of Christchurch! For a hVe-ro6med new bungniow fchi price quoted in one instance was £I2OO for a bungalow of six rooms with garage £ lloU. and for a four-roomed house with bathroom and scullery £<jSO cast. not one of these properties being near a tramline. South Taranaki owned splendid roads; from Hawera, they were tarred for thirty or forty miles' along each of the main routes.' Produce of all kinds was carried on motor lorries, and horse-drawn vehicles far and taw between.