Tree falls
■’[ CV.Z. Press Association) 1 AUCKLAND, Feb. 6. Part of a 40ft pohutukawa . tree crashed across the play- , ground and gateway of Nap- ’ ier Street School in Freemans ’ Bay. Auckland, last night. 1 The tree was the centre of -ja controversy about four . I years ago when the. Auckland J Education Board wanted to Ncut it down. Protests from 5 local residents led to the school committee and the . board’s agreeing to retain the 1 tree, said a board officer to- . night. f “One woman was even goi ing to chain herself to it if i we went ahead and tried to remove it.” he said.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33453, 7 February 1974, Page 1
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