DEATH SIGN HOISTED

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 63, 8 December 1936, Page 5

DEATH SIGN HOISTED

Agave Plant Which Flowers and Then Dies Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, December 7. An agrave plant in the Square, Palmerston North, between the band rotunda and the general post office has pointed its death sign skyward. It indicates by this sign.—a high, straight, thick green shaft shot from the midst of its thick leaves — that it will flower in about two months. Flowering so saps the vitality of the agrave that it dies of exhaustion. This plant Ajsvers once only, its blossoming dewhich is readied in from one' decades. This particular pla?yt in the Square 15 years. Afcj| dying gesture it will shortly bijjjttxiXn the main central stem a sejffiS'' of' plait lipibe from which will kqUj’ iJSonfiSMls of Sellow-green flowers, dons this bright ftujepal'garment it vyill die. It closely reeeniSklesFin hppearanee an American aloe.

Senior inspector of schools for the Wanganui Education Board for the last three years and a half, Mr. A. F. McMurtrie has accepted a similar position with the' Wellington Education Board. He commences'his new duties on February. 1. His successor has not yet been announced.