Our Local History – Menzies Ave & Wentworth St
Our splendid autumn colours are a great magnet for tourists and the planting project spearheaded by the late Bob Crothers to beautify the median strip on the southern highway approach to Glen Innes is much admired. One of many prior beautification schemes was ‘Menzies Avenue’. On August 24, 1935, the Glen Innes Examiner wrote “With the completion of the planting of trees at the South Park, Town Tennis Club and Grafton Road work will now commence at the Railway Station, an additional step in the campaign of the Town Beautification Committee”. Harold C Menzies had ‘fostered the suggestion’ of this…
