A GOOD IDEA
"Mr. Bennett's plan for tho planting of an avenue of trees along tho Hutt road is distinctly a good one," remarked one motorist to a "Post" reporter to-day, "but I am not sure that it can be done for £2 or £3 per tree—that is, if the trees ara to grow. One of the big points made when the Hutt road was surfaced was that it had a rock foundation. It has, and if a troo is to grow to any sizo a lot of preparation work must be done. Excavation and refilling with good soil is not a cheap business. The council, moreover, may some day decide to bring in inoro water-mains, and water is really more important than any avenue. "Still, if it can bo done it should be done, and wo could have on every tree a brass plate, 'This is our road and my tree; the motorist jjoya for all lie gets.?-**
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 154, 30 June 1926, Page 10
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159A GOOD IDEA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 154, 30 June 1926, Page 10
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