GIRL STUDENTS PROTEST THE TREES
An inexplicable inclination on the part of metropolitan municipal councils to remove trees from tree avenues, parks, and gardens regularly causes a public outcry. In the last week ot June council workmen were set to remove a short avenue of poplar trees near Melbourne Technical School. About 50 of the girt art students formed rings round some of the trees and about others which they themselves had planted in order to stop the destruction. They maintained their obstruction long enough to make a demonstration which has aroused public indigna-' tion as well as commendation of their civic spirit. The City Council says that it proposes to pliant quick-growing trees in other places along the street, but the destruction of 40 or 50 years’ growth is held to have been quite unnecessary. Tree culture in Australian cities and along country roads is adding new beauties to the landscape. Official Philistinism is being checked to good
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Evening Star, Issue 23029, 6 August 1938, Page 3
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