PROPOSED MEMORIAL IN BOTANIC GARDENS
Sir.—May I be permitted to voice my protest with “Stopit” against cutting down the trees and erecting pillars. etc., for a memorial in the Botanic Gardens. I understand the kauri tree on the Archery Lawn will also be removed. This tree has taken a good many years to grow, and it is now worth looking at. Surely if the people want a memorial to our late Mayoress they can find some other place to erect pillars, etc. Judging by the support given to the suggestion of erecting a memorial to those men who fell in the last war the public are not very keen on having any more. To those peonle who gave funds towards perpetuating Miss Couzens’s memory may I suggest that it be something that would alleviate human suffering —Yours, etc. GARDEN LOVER. July 18. 1949.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25859, 19 July 1949, Page 8
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