DO Like Trees!

Suva's Town Bosses DO Like Trees!

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, June 1. [IUNG by PlM’s February head line that “Suva’s Bosses don’t like trees,” Suva’s Mayor Mc irlane, proud of his Parks and irdens Committee, showed a PIM oresentative in May just how long the headline was.

Admitting that the Town Bosses not like the three very tall, un icorative coconut palms that rmerly stood in the Triangle, or other decorative but troublesome ie that interfered with traffic, lephone lines and caused expen se damage to the Post Office roof, r. McFarlane pointed out the con iierable volunteer tree-planting id public gardening activity that currently taking place in and ound the Fiji capital.

Partly due to the coming Royal sit, partly to the Coronation lebrations—but mainly because e Town Bosses feel that a great ;al can and should be done, in e ordinary course, to beautify iva—the Fiji capital is beginning look more attractive than ever.

Area Committees, donating their ne and money, have taken over e beautification of their own jighbourhoods. Vacant lots in the wn and suburbs, with permission owners, are being planted with )wers and shrubs. Suva’s 25 miles ’ roads are being planted with jcorative trees.

Last year flamboyants were anted in Victoria Parade, between rammar School and GPH; others . the area of the new market and is terminal.

The Mayoress and ladies of the wn have planted 21 trees along ie Marine Drive —which it is >ped will be renamed Queen Lizabeth Drive—beyond the GPH wards Suva Point. Eventually ees will continue right around the )int to Lauthala Bay. Tar-sealing ' this road will provide Suva with most attractive drive.

The Triangle planting project is i the care of Mr. Harvey Hunt, e plans to make of it a tropical impler, where the visitor from >oler climes may, without moving it of town, see bananas, sugar me, and tropical fruits actually •owing. Dwarf coconuts are be ig planted and the whole sur junded by red-leaved caladiums id other plants or shrubs with >loured leaves.

The three veteran coconuts have srtainly gone—but the Bosses say lere will be something far better ) replace them soon.

Tree-planting on a much wider sale in Fiji, with a view to meet ig the erosion problem, is at pre ;nt the subject of a campaign by aster, film, and lecture.