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from glare. Suitable seats and music-stands should be 

 provided for the performers, also mugs or tumblers, and 

 proximity to a good water supply. The lower portion of 

 the band-stand should form a room for the storage of the 

 seats, music-stands, etc. 



Then seating accommodation for the public should be 

 provided as far as possible. In our climate there is less 

 necessity for seats than in wet and cold districts, if a nice 

 grassy sward is available. Then it is impossible to provide 

 fixed seats to accommodate all the listeners, otherwise 

 that portion of the park, in the vicinity of the band-stand 

 will, except during the period of a performance, have the 

 appearance of a deserted cattle sale-yard. If there is a 

 building in the park convenient for the storage of a large 

 number of chairs, these might be brought out for each per- 

 formance and returned at its close, but, in spite of the 

 objections of people who want the Government to perform 

 every petty service for them, I remain at present of the 

 opinion that in most cases the best plan would be to arrange 

 with a contractor to supply chairs for each performance, 

 who would recoup himself by a charge of a penny a head, 

 certainly not an unreasonable demand. This is a common 

 practice in Europe, even in parks where one has to pay a 

 fee to listen to the performance whether one stands or not. 



3. Statuary. The question of the nude in art is one to 

 which the custodians of public parks must give attention to 

 at one time or another. When the matter is spasmodically 

 dealt with in newspapers and professional journals, pictures 

 in an art-gallery or advertisement posters have usually 

 raised the points at issue. Then the matter is usually 

 discussed from the life-class or artist's model point of view, 

 while certain artists express themselves in emphatic terms, 

 sometimes chiding the general public for possessing in- 

 artistic souls. No work in which the question of the 



