Chinese Garden

It has been sad to see the association of the local Chinese community with Wellington City Council’s much-derided choice of the unsuitable Frank Kitts Park for a Chinese Garden.

I am therefore pleased that mayor Justin Lester is now bringing an end to this cause for embarrassment (Chinese Garden wilting on capital’s priority list, February 18).

It is also noteworthy that deputy mayor Paul Eagle wants see what the Environment Court decides on the matter since this seems necessary before the council begins to make planned improvements to the playground at Frank Kitts Park.

His active support for the formal request which has been made for the court to set an early date for a hearing will be much appreciated.

It is over to the likes of councillor Andy Foster, who says that it would be a ‘‘terrible look for the city if we pulled out now’’, to promote a suitable alternative location for a Chinese Garden. I can recall half-a-dozen which have been suggested in letters to this newspaper. In the meantime I am certain that Wellingtonians will continue to be most appreciative of the untiring work of Waterfront Watch on their behalf. MiCHAEL GIBSON Northland