The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1915-06-02 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

VII., who"liet`. candy been home for a brief haw; :iiii brought with- him copy of 21Theragsic Sea Tim,". which is printed and4p;fri.. limbed weekly on the battle4lll,-.llmo before the writer is that for V;;. 1915 and is the eleventh jostle, "The  North Sea Times" is really a remarkably interesting and well-edited journal, and is probably unique. Ws are informed flail his Majesty the . King is a constant_ reader, and this one can well believe, for, both pictures and letterpress smack most heartily of that life aboard ship winch our sailor monarch. knows so well and love. soisnuch. The illustrations are rte, although although the subject matter tbens is apt to elude the mere'landsisian'. stikt the "Times" contains near4'l, every feature-one associates with up-todete journalism. In .time to come vowels , of this little journal will indeed be treasured pcaseasionz. It was °reported the other day that Mauchesthr _and Salford were, to rSeelve,; in 'due course, some war trophies in re- , cognition. of the effort. they had matte in ; raising special battalions and otherwise , sending men to' the Army. What of Birkenhead in this respect?' Birkenhead has not' only raised' two ,battalions of "Bantams,". but it holds the distinctioi. of having 'aßsoliately initiated this branc&o! of the Country's -forces, and so led ,the way, • for ninny. thousands of `tunder I 'height" 'young . men .being enrolled to . fight for their King and Empire. It is to be hoped that the Mayo, and the l3orough ' Member will , take steps to put in • prompt application. for trophies for this borough. The ,presence of some German guns—or possibly sonto of their murderous gas sylindere.—woold bawd' a wholesome influence in winii4t recruits. .. A 'short time , sftqr the the Albert ~Memoribl I 'School' had -.played at a fonction in , the Town Hall, it was suggested in this column that, when the summer Caine, it would be a• good thing, seeing how excellently the' boys composing the band played, if arrangements could be mode for them-to 'perform during Certain evenings in, Siy, •Birkenhead Park. or Ramilton7iitsare. Tl Parks aid Cemetery Committee of tliZlFTown Connell have .now given, their. perinission to the hand'te play' in Birkenhead Park "on occasions" during the summer months. Simultaneously,: the Committee have sanctioned' the use, of the Park bandstand on Monday end Thursday evenings by the Birke‘head Borough Silver Prize Band. In each ease the performances will be "without payment, in accordance with the decision of the Committee to dispense with paid bands during the continuance.of the war, for economy's sake—___ It is of coarse useless, at, a time like, the present, to suggest any "capital expenditure" to the Town Council, lint the hot weather experienced during.trii`aiit week must have led many Hirkonians towish, once more, that the Council had,. in years gone by, plaited trees along the sidea of some of the principal streets of the town that carry a great deal of traffic. On hot and dusty days, how wel' cOme would be the shade and the refreshing tone of trees along such thoroughfares as Cheater-street and New Cheaterroad, Conway-street, and Borough-road-to select only • few of those that might be named. They need not be large frees, of course; at a moderate height they would afford all the shade and cooling inBuence necessary. When one reflects how much comfort has been provided and beauty added in many towns in England by the planting of trees in main thoroughfares (quite apart from suburbs), it is regrettable that Birkenhead has done so little, relatively, in this respect. However, it is "never too late to mend":-, in regard to street tree planting, and when the war is over, something may be done to supply Birkenhead with what would add so considerably to it. Credit,