ENCLOSURES PLANTED.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —It is very evident that, if the enclosures planted by the City Council are to be thrown open to the public, the children will very soon destroy all the trees. As I was passing the plantation at the foot of Grey-street this aftemoou I noticed 30 or 40 children disporting themselve3 as children are wont, and holding on to the branches while dodging each oilier round the trees. At least half-a-dozen of them had handfuls of the youn" shrubs of the pines in their hands, which bad evidently been just plucked off. 1 called the attention of the constable on duty to the destruction going on, but, bo my astonishment, he informed me he had no orders to interfere, except in the cise of trees planted in the streets, and that he could not interfere having no right to interfere.—l am, &c., James Burtt.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5630, 2 December 1879, Page 6
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