ONE TREE HILL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23769, 24 September 1940, Page 10

ONE TREE HILL

Sir, —I live about two miles, as the crow flies, from One Tree Hill, and I. am positive that it is only a short time before the beautiful monument will need to be made much lower.

Many days I look out, especially in the mornings, and the obelisk is entirely covered with mist, while the trees are nearty always to be seen. An aeroplane, sooner or later, is going to crash on the monument, unless it is lowered.

At night a red light shines there, and in the daytime it shines like silver, but many "times the obelisk is not seen at all and aeroplanes fly fairly low these days. I think the monument is beautiful, but from a distance the trees aro more beautiful and appear as only one tree. The objectors to them can take a walk and see for themselves. I can remember seeing pictures in the daily papers of a tree being transplanted there with great love and care, but what one man builds up another man always wants to pull down. I would just like to remind the grumblers about the tree —to us at a distance only one—that men can mako any number of monuments, but only God can make a tree—and what is more beautiful in the landscape than trees? Puke.