From 1964 under the care of the town's head gardeners, E.A. Cottrell and C.T. Harrison, the gardens had been extended westward with the planting of hardy trees, in particular desert ash and flowering gum [REF].
To commemorate those locals who did not return from the Boer War in 1899, a monument was unveiled in the Main Street Gardens on 12 June 1903 in the presence of Lord and Lady Forrest, a number of returned men, school cadets and a large crowd of citizens [REF].