Ivy and other creepers growing on public buildings is not favoured by the Minister of Public Works, Hon. R. Semple, who has ordered the removal of ivy on the walls of Government offices at Hokitika. The Minister said that his opinion, which engineers supported, was that ivy ou a building retained damp, rotted the timber and that the roots crept into the mortar. The foliage harboured pests and germs and generally was detrimental.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 5
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