THE BOTANICAL GARDENS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—-I observe in your issue of the 24th inst., in the report of the meeting of the City Council held on the previous day, Councillors Aldrich and Barnes are stated to have made remarks reflecting on the management of the Botanical Gardens, etc. Now, although the Gardens might possibly be better kept, it is perhaps not generally known that Mr M‘Gi ucr, tho curator, has only one paid man under his control, and has to depend upon a supply of prison labor, which has been more limited of late than formerly. As to cutting down trees, these were dead ones, cut down by
Mr M'Gruer by order of the Board, as It was considered dangerous to passers-by to allow then! to stand, and for one dead tree so cut down dozens of live ones have bocn planted throughout the grounds.—l am, etc., J. P. Maitla.vd, Chairman Domain Board, Dunedin, August 26.
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Evening Star, Issue 5762, 27 August 1881, Page 2
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