THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE TOWN BELT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 6, 7 June 1873, Page 6

THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE TOWN BELT.

jvie waiter proposes to expend £5,000 on the Town Belt, in order to render it a fitting place of recreation. The worthy Councillor deserves the thanks of the citizens, and it is to be hoped the City Council will adopt his wise proposition. There is one matter having more or less connection with this subject, which we take the liberty of suggesting to Mr Walter as an improvement on his idea. There are two cemeteries, the one to the north the other to the south of this city, and so close to it, as to be a menace to the health of the inhabitants ; in fact, they may be said to be within the city. This should not be, and it has always appeared to us an extraordinary thing that the North Cemetery should have been ever opened. These cemeteries should be closed and beautifully planted with shrubs and flowers, and one general cemetery opened either in the Peninsula between Anderson's Bay and the sea, or somewhere in the neighbourhood of G-reen Island. The latter place, as being near a railway station, would be very suitable ; arrangements could be made, as in London for a funeral train once each day. ' Perhaps Mr. Walter, who is both a humane and practical gentleman, would think this suggestion worthy of serious consideration, and embody it in his project for the improvement of the recreation ground belonging to the City. Any improvement thkt can be made will be very incomplete indeed, so long as these two cemeteries remain as they are.