GARDEN THIEVES
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Your leader in to-night's "Post" is very itauch to the point. Out in this district we are troubled very much by garden thieves, and the great trouble is I that if their fancy is very rare or hard to propogate, the plant is taken holus bolus. There is no encouragement to any one to try and beautify a place at all when the justice meted out is such as was the case last Friday. Personally, I have lost some very rare plants, and have. threatened to make the first party I catch suffer. We read of justice, yet "a wharfie" caught playing hazards,with his own cash is fined £2, and a garden thief caught red-handed is allowed- to go scot-free.—l am, etc., J.K. Lower Hutt, 10th December.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 12 December 1923, Page 9
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