TREES IN SQUARE.
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —As a visitor to . your city at various intervals, I cannot refrain from expressing through your columns my astonishment .at what is taking place in the Square. I .see beautiful trees and shrubs, many of them native, deliberately cut down and destroyed. It may well be that a certain amount of thinning out was desirable, but to indulge in a wholesale destruction of trees and shrubs which have taken years to grow is deplorable. It is the worst example of destruction I have seen in any city, and reflects very little credit on the City Council. A Manawatu resident of means informed me that he had considered presenting this city with an electric fountain, but this destruction had so disgusted him that he has changed his mind. What would Lord Bledisloe have said?—l am, etc., ’ ’ VISITOR.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 19 July 1937, Page 6
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