DAFFODILS PILFERED
CHRISTCHURCH COMPLAINT COUNCIL FLOWER-BEDS SUFFER [BT TELEORArH OWN . CORRESPONDENT] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday Referring to the pilfering of flowers nlong the river banks, the superintendent of parks and reserves at Christchurch, Mr. M. J. Barnett, said that on a recent afternoon, when passing an area planted with daffodil bulbs along the bank of tho Heathcote River, he had to check a boy and a girl who had no fewer than 120 Jblooms in their possession. On another afternoon, two girls were stopped when busily engaged in picking every bloom they could find. Mr. Barnett explained that during the autumn several thousand daffodil bulbs were planted in the grass along tho left bank of tho Heathcote. During the past fortnight many of those bulbs had commenced to flower, but during tho past few days the whole area had been practically stripped of blooms.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23154, 28 September 1938, Page 14
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