The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-09-11 00:00:00

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PROPOSLI3 ILICRIATION Gamin.
The
first
that it is most desirable to purchase bola
Tors and chief
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thoestreetin paper
High
was Highway
the pieces of lent offered to the C mocil by Lord
recommending that his lor Iship's offer to sell the land
flWesimt, blorne situate
r thiipatirpLet Pao'fkeltecret°" anatidonalcGkrof"und. L
Grounds, 'anngd
to ioGovernmentrut
and
also for leave to borrow a sum, not exceeding £5,0
tbelteard&c.ice‘ofirdrnthbehnlierrd'sak UrctitahopenpretolyP°thr:e tibir.sposeLi7ledl Ipuchase.
for the purpose of forming such grounds.
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ford MOO per acre.
Perkatine, £4OO an acre, and for the 20 acres at Heck.
The Clerk having read this paragraph on the agenda
BLUSTON rose and said he had had the honour
to sit on the Council for many years, and he believed
he had uniformly striven to Promote all such moult,'"
for the improvement of the town as had been brought
before them, so much so that at the last municipal
election he was stigmatised as • reckless epentithrift of
the public money. (Laughter.) Therefore, it was all
the more painful for Mint, have to protest In the name
of the ratepayers /against the expenditure involved in
the proposed scheme. The first step in the matter of
It 'creation Grounds was to decide that they ought to
have one on the top of C oistitution Hill, and, as a
preliminary step, they parted with • piece i,f land
which might have been s.ld for £BOO, and, if hi.
rormory served him right, they also decide I t spend
£5OO on laying out this gr nin I which inv dyed a cost
one way or the other of £1,3001 With regard t the
land at Parluitone, Lord Wimb iroe's offer of £4OO
per acre for the three acres was, he thou rht, a
very reasonable one. It was not the bu.inees
of his lordship to sell it for Wei, nor as far as that
went was it theirs to take it for lees. For if it bat been
put into the market it would have fetche I very much
more But what were they going to do with it when
they had purchased it? Were they going to lay it out,
fence it in, and plant it, and generally keep it up as a
nice pleasure ground? It so, it would not cost them
lees than 0,000. Of course, on the other band, they
were not bound to lay it out. They might simply
content themselves with buying it as an open space,
and then they might call it the Parkstooe Ladies'
Walking Field—(laughter)—costing them £1,200 for
the purchase, and at least £llO a year for its Ms. It
appeared to lies utterly ridiculous. As to the 20
acres at Heckford, he should be quite disposed, and he
believed the ratepayers would be willing to purchase
them, hr the price wan reasonable. But the great
essential was that this should not be a siogle scheme
for a recreation ground, but that in accordance with
former decisions, the question of baths and the flush.
log of the streets should be c imbined with it. If that
were done he was qnite sure it would be very popular.
The two latter projects were considered by the rate.
payers, he knew, to be an absolute necessity, but the
gardens were looked upon as • comparative luxury.
He therefore protested against any spending of the
public money on this 'chains until the flushing of the
sewers harl been carried out, and he would propose •
resolution to that eff.ct.
The resolution was not seconded.
Mr. HUDSO3II wante I the whole question postponed
until they bad received a reply from Lord Wimborne
to the communication which had recently been rent
him by the Town Clerk. (It is understood that this
relat-d to an inquiry whether his lordship might not
feel disposal to make some abet/moat in price.) He
opposed the adoption of the report, because he thought
it should be weighed with more deliberation than bad
yet been given to it. With regard to the Rockford
Property, it was a very important matter, as far as
Longfieet was concerned, and he did not know be
should have much exception to take tolhe p 1 'n; but as
far as the Parkstone scheme went he ciphered he
thought they ought not to spend so large a sum of the
public money for so problematical an advantage. He
believed they would find they had been buying. white
elephant, and that it would be very expeneivsto main-
tain, in addition to the great amount wanted for it.
He did not say More bad been asked for the land than It was worth, but what he did say wasthat as far
as the riatep•yera were concerned the game was not
worth the candle. They already had • piece of
land on the top of the hill •ppropriated to the
public, and if it were made more ornamental
be thought it would answer all the require-
ments of the place When the tier
ma came
before the committee it was sail the public would
have an opportunity of exweudua tbifr
before the Loral Government Board dniiiia quion an...
who would be sent dowel° make enquiries. But was i
this a question of snob magnitude elms tha
ttlits ought to not uPoo the Tows Gamin R. Nu