THEFT OF FLOWERS
Sir, —Christchurch has numbers of residents who plant a border of flowers along the front of their fences, thereby producing a very pleasing effect. Recently, one who had trained climbing roses to trail over the fence found a woman picking a bunch of blooms. When remonstrated with, this female had the effrontery to say. “They are growing on the road and are public property, and I can do what I like with them’’; and went on picking. A bucket of water over her was what she should have got; but, after further protest, the rose-grower went inside (incredibly, the rose-picker was an acquaintance). Surely the picker was wrong in saying that the blooms were public property. If not, I suggest that the City Council take steps to have any plants trained over fences or planted along frontages vested in the council, so that cases of vandalism such as the above can be properly dealt with.—Yours, etc., EDGAR F. STEAD. January 7, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24768, 8 January 1946, Page 2
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