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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 79, 29 December 1925, Page 6

No one likes to cut down a fine tree when it is grown in a place where there is plenty of room for it, yet big trees near the windows of some of our big institutions, while very beautiful to look at from the inside, are often the cause of depriving many of the inmates of having an extensive and cheerful view of the outside world (states tlie "Auckland Star”). On Christmas Day one patient at the Auckland Hospital said he would soon be well and able to go home again, but there was one request he would like to make and it did not affect l;inisclf, and that was that a big tree in front of the ward window where lie was, be cut down in the interest, of the patients who would occupy his bed long after lie had been discharged from the hospital. Behind the tree there was one of the most beautiful views to- be seen anywhere and lie often got a glimpse of it by raising himself in hi§ bed, but when lying down all he could see was the leaves and branchca of the tree in front of him. He made the appeal to have the tree removed and some small sbru'.J put in its placet It wa-j protnjßeci that the mattret woalcl tare attention.