THE CITY RESERVES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22711, 25 October 1935, Page 11

THE CITY RESERVES

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —As a member of that great body the general public, allow me to add my protest against this wantonness that we see going on all around us in the cutting down and the clearing out of our beautiful native bush. What was a charming walk, for 'nstance, accessible to old and young alike, from Lower Opoho road through the Gardens along the foot of the hill to Duudas street. It was once a joy to all who walked there. It fairly “gare me greet ” to see it now, for gone is the bush that once made the hillside so lovely, and now our horrified eyes gaze on a high clay embankment, naked and bare, save for a few dejected-looking fuchsia trees. At the foot there is a children’s playground of sorts. When I last saw this it was a series of mud puddles. The Woodhaugh Gardens seem to be meeting a like fate. It is very sad; but surely something can be done to stay this unfeeling and wholesale destruction. —I am, One Whose Heart Within Him Burns. Opoho, October 23.