STEALING FLOWERS.
• 4 TO THI JtDITOB. Snv— Allow me through the medium of your columns to protest against the wholeBile spoliation now being- carried on in the Gbnrob. of England Cemetery. It is simply impossible to have eve* the commonest flowers or plants without their being out down and carried away. I know of a reoent instance where two valuable plants, put in at considerable expense and trouble, hare been deliberately rooted up and taken away. Where is the curator or the police ? Are both absolutely impotent ? I have reason to believe this continual desecration is not only oommitted by ohildren, bat by worthless loafers, who steal the flowers to sell them for drink. They mußt be known to the polio*. At present is is hopeless to expeot to be able to grow anything bat weeds and gross, and so a spot wbioh is naturally favoured, and might be made one of the most beautiful resorts in New Zealand, looks like an abandoned stookyard. It is nonsense to say that ohildren aannot be prevented from picking flowers. The aoores of parks in England frequented by hundreds of ohildren and the blaze of flowers in the season are an answer to this. It is simply gross neglect. I urn, Ac, Despoiled. 17th November.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 121, 20 November 1888, Page 4
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212STEALING FLOWERS. Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 121, 20 November 1888, Page 4
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