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The word "carriage " in common use in by-laws of parks 

 has been held, by a Judge of the High Court in England, to 

 be large enough to include a machine, such as a bicycle, 

 which carries the person who gets upon it, and such person 

 may be said to "drive" it. The opinion of the Crown 

 Solicitor of New South Wales is that in the Domains Regu- 

 lation "the word 'vehicle' used in the Regulation referred 

 to which provides that no person shall ride or drive any 

 kind of vehicle within the Domains except on the roads laid 

 out therein, includes 'cycles'." This is a matter of con- 

 siderable importance in the proper control of parks. The 

 drivers of motor cars are amenable to the law as far as 

 furious driving is concerned in precisely the same way that 

 drivers of other vehicles are. 



III. Roads and Paths, Fences, Seats. 

 a. Roads and Paths. — It is an axiom in park management 

 that people will make their own paths if permitted. This 

 is quite true, but we must be careful not to give false 

 interpretation to the public wish. Given a uniform open 

 plain the public may well be left to make their own tracks 

 which may form the route of the future road. But people 

 always avoid obstacles, — such as water, mud, hard and 

 especially broken stone, smooth pebbles, tree-stumps, and 

 so on. So that the pioneer road, even in a park, is a sinu- 

 ous track. All that these go as you please roads are useful 

 for are as indications of the general trend and volume of 

 the traffic. 



I prefer gravel paths, well rolled and with good blinding 

 material. They are cool and pleasant to the feet and con- 

 trast w : ell with the grass. Asphalt paths are suitable for 

 steep grades and for places where there is much traffic, as 

 a clean, uniform road is thus secured. 



Visitors to Europe are struck with the absence of side 

 drainage in the parks and gardens there. This shows that 



