TREES
Sir,—While the churches, local bodies and organisations throughout Canterbury are appealing for funds for centennial memorials, most of them using the occasion to get something they badly want, we are at the same time ruthlessly destroying the trees of Canterbury. The beauty of Park terrace has been marred'by the hacking down of the Bishop’s Court trees; the quiet of the Riccarton churchyard has gone with the trees on the east side. Will the vicarage ones follow? People allow their lovely gardens to be sold in such tiny sections that the trees go too, and every day they fall before the axe of local bodies—these trees which are our heritage from the pioneers of Canterbury. They are the memorial passed to us by the early settlers to preserve for them. Even in self-interest we should keep them. — Yours, etc., D. A. HENNESSY. Waimate, February 6, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26032, 8 February 1950, Page 2
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