PLANTING TREES
CITY FORESTRY DEPARTMENT S
' CASES OF VANDALISM.
■ The Forestry' Department of the City Council, under the direction of the Reserves Committee and the''City Forester (Mr.'B. Hill), is at present very active, and the fruits of its excellent work on various portions of the Town Belt should be seen in the years,to come, providing that vandals are not as active in pulling up the trees as the department is in plantmgj,hern. This year something liks, 70,000 trees have been planted on the, ■eastern slopes of Mount Victoria, and they promise to, do very well indeed. Numerous varieties have been put in, separate areas having been set apart fon native and exotic plants, respectively. On the city sWe of the Tinakori Hills there nave been 16,000 replacements, made necessary by the employment to too great an extent of unskilled labour. No such labour has been employed this year, it being realised that it does not give satisfaction. The- trees planted on Mount Victoria in the vicinity of Grassstreet are making splendid headway and are shoeing up very well. There have been about 5000 replacements at Central Park. Two thousand trees : have been planted in Rolleston-street, leading from Wallace-street to Brooklyn, and 3000 on the HaE-street zig-zag. It was recently reported that, on the zig-zag, 200 trees had been pulled up by vandals. Again last night 100 trees were removed. It has been alleged that women are mainly responsible. , They fear, it is said, that when, the trees grow they will provide shelter for undesirable characters, but the authorities state' that such will not'be^the case. Shrubs have been planted alongside the track, and, of course, they will never grow to a very great height. The only shelter they are likely to provide is shelter from the wind. Councillor Frost, chairman of the Reserves Committee, states that we cannot have a treeless city for the sake of a few ultra-timid women, and he intent.. to ask the City Council to offer a sustantial reward for information leadii; to the conviction of any person who removes trees from the Town Belt.
PLANTING TREES
Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 33, 8 August 1916, Page 6
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