Ex-Servicemen’s Battle Against a Sydney Tree
SYDNEY, Feb. 16.
The “Battle of the Tree’’ is nearing its final stages and it appears that even the smokescreen of verbiage poured out by hundreds of tree lovers will not save the huge North Coast fig tree which obscures the view of the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney. Battle was joined when the Returned Servicemen’s League, claiming that the tree obstructed the view of the war memorial from Macquarie street, asked the City Council to remove it. The allegation seems wellfounded, as the tree is firmly established in the middle of the driveway.
Its girth is such that apparently it was too much for the contractor who laid the driveway originally, so that he compromised by going round it on either side.
The battle has raged chiefly about the contention that the memorial was constructed by human hands, whereas, as many protagonists declaimed, “only God can make a tree.” After many months of committees and inspections the City Council has at last decided that the tree must go-
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Grey River Argus, 17 February 1949, Page 7
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