Cemetery at Akaroa
Sir.—The Akaroa County Council chairman’s reply to Mr Ericson sounds convincing, but how easy to sav a “cemeterw committee adopted a plan” and that
“two trees had to be removed.” Surely an expert on landscape architecture should have been consulted for an area which up to now had such character and history. Nothing can be done now to replace the 80-year-old Pinus sylvestris and Pinus pinaster which have been so easily and quickly felled to make way for a parking area for 50 cars. I am sure any capable landscape designer could have planned such an area in keeping with the environment. When public money is being spent on such projects it would be desirable to have such plans for public inspection before the work commences. — Yours, etc., G. H. GOLDSBROUGH. February 19, 1977.
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