SPARE THE TREES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12820, 15 August 1939, Page 5

SPARE THE TREES

-Woodman spare that tree, Sir ' -Touch not a single hough, 1° youth it sheltered me -And I’ll protect it now. L- noet Morns penned the long ago of last these l' oe& ,* c „ n]c] he have thought cenll,r Licablp‘they are-in a coun,!ow aPP IIC ?* . d , kn owii—to those try y e *nA*omo trees, growing at the four ha» dso F r fth AV enue and fronten(ra npvonport Road, whose death ing has just been passed by our «* ten S 1 council. Their glorious jjoiout, cummer days must l:'“s,cu" red m3 nv a recent while lJ \ .1 cd to feast his eyes on the su--1,6 those graceful giants face Pe \4ture has been most kind and * ntif«l iu its gilts to lanranga, f 0 ! 1 one regretfully has to admit that wield the axe is very much in the minds of our city fathers " numerous instances are m oyi- ! rciightlv Irish I am afraid). u.d Port and TelaJph Departure.,., are U.e P Ih- niece,” who desire the des- " ( l t iou of our old friends. To my n : of thinking the amenities of civilization are the very devil and it is time the “powers that be temVred their indiscretions all over the countryside with a little love of the beautiful. What is the expense of a few yards f c opper wire, compared with the ruthless destruction of things of beauty which have taken years to bring to fruition. flow as to the attitude of our Council, only two gentlemen showed they loved Nature’s gifts in preference to the ugly and utilitarian telegraph pole. Surely it is the duty of the Council to fight to the last ditch to conserve the interests of the ratepayers. I am afraid they do not always act up to this. My view, for what it is worth, is that they should tenaciously controvert all attempts by Government Departments to despoil our scenic cha/ms. Of course the classic instance of utility before everything else is the railway line along the foreshore! ! I trust ere it be too late that an effort will be made to stop this latest act of vandalism. I make this appeal against the sentence of death hanging over these four noble trees, In the hope that the reprieve will come not as an act of grace, but out of the minds of men, v/hc have the courage to change—l cannot help thinking—their hastily made decision, “A LOVER OF THE BEAUTIFUL.”