CORRESPONDENCE.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 199, 28 March 1913, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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TO THE EDITOR.

SIR, —In your leading article in Tuesday’s POST you deal with the suggested Town Beautifying Society for Te Awamutu. With you I “rejoice at the prospect of a definite start being made ” with this most commendable proposal, vet I am of the opinion that this work should not devolve upon the Town Board. In almost every other town it is set apart and taken in hand by a separate and distinct body, called if you like a Town Beautifying Society, but with the one and only object of; planting and preserving suitable ornamental trees. That the local

Town Board should be expected, to nurse this scheme is wrong.Its funds are already more than over-taxed, and if the members devote their time and thought to the maintenance and improvement of our streets and footpaths and the host of other matters which are under their control, I consider they have an ample sufficiency of public business. I disapprove of the method adopted in this and many other proposals.

No sooner is some suggestion made than there is a run for the Board’s office and the greater part of the time of the meeting is wasted through long-winded explanations of the pet scheme. And what is worse still is the" manner in which the Board is condemned unless it heartily supports every mushroom club. But we do want to beautify > the town, and this being the case it is for all townsueople to combine in forming an institution to carry out the work. A society, if properly supported’ would not drain upon the Town Board’s finances, and would not add to the already heavy work of its members. I hope that those more directly interested will take immediate steps to call a public meeting, at which a society will be formed to prepare a scheme for a definite course of action. With the approval of the Board the work can be carried out without further delay by the Society. Public co-operation in this matter is, in my opinion, the most satisfactory method of tackling this proposal, and I hope that immediate steps will be taken to obtain public support in a Te Awamutu Town' Beautifying Society.—l am, etc., Beauty Fying. ;■ ,