Wide view of Abbott Street in Cairns from the 1920s


News of the day

Cairns Post, Saturday 27 July 1935, page 6

PARKING PROBLEMS

WHY REMOVE GARDENS?

SOUND ARGUMENT.

The City Council proposal to remove one of the centre garden plots in Abbott Street to cope with present parking problems, was deplored by Mr. H. K. N. MacDonnell, speaking at yesterday's meeting of the Cairns Chamber of Commerce. The city, with its two chain wide streets lent itself admirably to beautification, and Mr. MacDonnell considered that the removal of established street gardens was quite unnecessary.

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