CENTENNIAL PLANTING
SCARLET OAKS SELECTED WIDE REPRESENTATION Senior schools, youth movements, the University, and other major city organisations will be. represented when the centennial planting is done on the morning of August 21. The Mayor and each of the city councillors, as well as former Mayors, will each plant a tree on the area at the back of the Northern Cemetery overlooking Logan Park which has been cleared for the purpose.
The president, Mr A. C. Cameron, told the Amenities Society at its meeting yesterday that it had been decided that 100 scarlet oaks should be planted, but only 40 would be ready by August 17. As a result, silver birches and other suitable trees which were to have been selected by the superintendent of reserves, Mr M. R. Skipworth, yesterday morning, would be used to supplement the oaks which were available.
The speaker said that the Amenities Society would plant six trees, and he and Mrs Mackie Begg, and Messrs D. Tannock, J. L. Salmond. Crosby Morris and G. Simpson were appointed to the task.
Mr Cameron added that it was hoped that the top of the area at which the planting would be carried out would be reserved as a look-out.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26846, 10 August 1948, Page 7
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