The minutes of the meeting of the Parks Committee of December 31 are read and confirmed. There were present Messrs. R. H. Beauchamp (Chairman), ALE. Algar, C. D. Kerr, J. H, Teesdale, The Assistant Engineer, The Superintendent of Parks and The Secretary.
Soochow Creek Foreshore.—The Superintendent states that the work of clearing these grass plots of materials is completed except the extreme eastern section, and that the work of turfing will be undertaken forthwith.
Hongkew Recreation Ground.—The Committee is informed that Mr. F. K. Ward, Assistant Master in the Public School, is willing to undertake the duties connected with the allocation of playing grounds, and, from the absence from complaint, the Committee assumes that the various applicants for reservations have up to the present been sat.s-fied with the arrangements which he hias made.
A sketch plan with explanatory notes, showing amended proposals for layin, out the whole of the Grouad, is rabe mitted, and generally approved with the following notes (e}—The members are opposed to any carriage drive being made within the Ground, since the road constituting the southern and western borders will afford ample facilities in this direction.
(b).—An entrance gate will be made in the Noth Szechuen Roact about 200 yards from the: north-west corner of the" Ground.
(c):—It will be necessary to culvert the small section of creek on the west of the present entrance, and to remove the rockery now surrounding it, which work, however, in the Committee's opinion, may be postponed for the present.
(@).—The Superintendent is directed to remove the plantation groves trees remaining in the Ground at the earliest possible date.
Bund Foreshore.—It is deci to remove the small line of turf and, tar-macadam, the space between the ¢op of the slope and the pathway, which; owing condition. j to its position is continuously ip a bad
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