THE CITY RESERVES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22058, 14 September 1933, Page 6

THE CITY RESERVES

TO THE EDITOR. ' Sib, —I live in Belleknowes, and 4 walk through the Queen’s Park every time I go to town, and frequently have seen trees and bush being ruthlessly sawn and chopped down. In some places the bush is becoming quite thin and bare looking. Something definite will have to be at once done to put a stop to this, or else our few pieces of native bush and our beautiful reserves will be doomed. Firewood is very cheap at present, and there is no reason why people with no sense of decency and no eye for the beautiful should he allowed so to destroy our beauty spots. I would suggest that all public-spirited citizens be asked through the press or advised through notice boards placed in our reserves to protect their own property by getting the names of offenders and sending them on to the nearest police officer, , . . .. , I would also like to advise those who have charge of our reserves that, from what I have seen, it is not safe to send some of the relief workers into these parks and reserves to cut grass or do any work a unless they have some of the reserves men to watch what they are doing. One morning last summer as i was walking to town, some relief workers were cutting grass and burning it; a man had a great heap of grass pi[ed all round a beautiful tree, and Avas in the act of setting fire to it. When I asked him what he meant by setting nre to the beautiful tree he only laughed at me and said the tree was now dead, and would come in very handy during the winter for firewood. There is do doubt whatever that a great deal of destruction is going on in our city.—l am, etc., An Interested Citizen,