MEMORIAL OAK DYING
. 1 ♦ -y,.. V KILLED BY LEAKING GAS-MAIN. . Mxrcn- concern ha« been caused .in church by the discoveiy that an oak tree, f-j' planted on July 9, 18615, in commemoration' JM of the marriage of Princess - i||| (now the Queen-Mother) is virtually v "Jead.r In honour of the marriage, two trees^ez^,■/jfgß planted with great sereinonv, in svhjtfli citi-* ~-: m zens whose names are now intio&tdj ; eiated with the history •of early Ohrist< Vm|l church, were prominent. From" the day <>B . >|l their planting, the trees grew ". to^'etHCT||B4§| strength and beauty, qualities which ffcjjmn still possessed by the Albert Edward Jjffij But the Alexandra Oak, a few paces dis«J taut, is obviously doomed, destroyed, it ift , tjj believed, by leakages from gas pert examinations have realised.#9.l that were suggested by the Withering the tree, as the roots have bo quite* dead. Measures are uftw' 'jaM taken to save the avenue of Miliwl seems to be threatened, and the cil has just declined to submit U> tiori its claim upon tho Gas Corrip»ny.Mi'^g £500 for damage already done to.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15175, 14 December 1912, Page 8
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179MEMORIAL OAK DYING New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15175, 14 December 1912, Page 8
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