Tree Gaps Being Filled in by Parks Office Activity continues on the Bund foreshore, where the parks branch of the P.W.D. is engaged in filing in the gaps in the rows of trees. occasloned by accidents and by wind and other natural causes. The planting will be carried on until all the blank spaces are fled.
An innovation Is the placing of cement tree slabs, to enable the public to walk close to the trees, and this work has now been started. The slabs have alr vents which permit natural. processes in the growth of the trees. The present small heaps Ofsoft earth or mud about the trees will all be covered by such slabs eventually.
In planting trees to All the gaps in the rows, spacing of about 25-80 feet being' observed. Good shade Is looked for from the new trees before the summer of 103
Considerable improvement has been accomplished on the lawn between the foot of Peking Read and the foot of Jinkee Road, near the City Government Ferry, This lawn, which. formerly trampled continually careless pedestrians, now fa enclosed by a low hedge and fower-beds have been laid inside...
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