PRESERVE THE BEAUTY SPOTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 74, 27 March 1912, Page 8

PRESERVE THE BEAUTY SPOTS

I TO THE EDITOB. Six-,— Your correspondent, Mr. John Castle, deserves, with yourself, tho thanks of scenic lovers generally, for the way you have called attention to tho vandalism now being carried out in the grounds of old Government House. 1 venture the opinion that there is no occasion for the wholesale destruction now being carried out, s and carried out in such a hurry, that one would suppose the Government was offering a large premium for the destruction of theso j trees in the shortest space of time. I would like to point out. and I get my information from one of 'the few remaining settlers of 1840, that where they are now excavating, was in the early days a cemetery, and I am informed that only th« tombstones were removed to the cemetrey now so long known as Sydney or Bolton-street. Many of those killed in tho Maori wars are buried in the old Government grounds, and naturally the few old settlers remaining view with regret the destruction now going on. I do hope for the sake of early recollections, that our "Acting-Mayor will endeavour, with the assistance of the whole of the City Council, to prevent as far as possible, any unnecessary destruction of the many beautiful trees contained in this old landmark.— l am, etc., ■ JOHN R. INGRAM. Wellington, 26th March.