MEMORIAL OAK DOOMED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18895, 18 December 1924, Page 12

MEMORIAL OAK DOOMED.

INTERFERENCE WITH KERB.

TREE IN CHRISTCHURCH AVENUE.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]

CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday.

At the southern extremity of the (Ton hie lino of trees along Fitzgerald Avenue, where the avenue joins j/jwer High Street, there, stands an oak tree, planted in 1863 to commemorate the marriage of the then Prince of Wales, who afterwards became King Edward VII. It was proposed, at a meeting of (he City Council last evening, that the oak in question should be removed, the Works Committee stating that a kerb authorised to be placed in Fitzgerald Avenue enclosing the trees was now in course of construction. To make a neat job it would be necessary to remove three trees, one of which was the commemoration oak. It was a poor specimen of oak, the committee said, and was covered with black scale, besides which it was out oi alignment with the other trees in the avenue. Mr. McKellar moved that the recommendation bo referred back to tho committee. In seconding this amendment, Mr. C. Carr said ho was surprised that the Works Committee had recommended the removal of the oak without any proposal to replace it. He felt inclined to say, "Woodman, spare that tree." The amendment was lost, and the committee's recommendation was adopted.