Trees
Sir,—Mr Gilpin invites ‘'Rip Van Winkle” to call on him to have afforestation plans for the future explained to him. Anyone interested can see for himself these plans unfolding. Beautiful trees are being felled all over Christchurch and replaced by flowering varieties and shrubs. These trees are life savers in a smog-ridden town and are needed for shade, shelter, beauty and height in this flat city of the plains. Memorial avenue of “living trees” (Lord Cobham) is planted with half-dead camellias, rhododendrons, holly and other shrubs for most of its length, while of the relatively few deciduous trees there in the mountain ash, the most blight-prone tree in Christchurch. Before the autumn our new City. Council should have the courage to stop this senseless expenditure on destruction and unsuitable planting and give us back our trees. — Yours, etc.,
D. A. HENNESSY January 18, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29107, 20 January 1960, Page 3
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