Tree Cutting
Sir, —In Lower Clifford street we are in one of the heaviest rated residential areas in the borough, paying approximately .i;2O in rates on each quarter-acre of land. Our street is off the main traffic routes, and our trees should bother nobody other than ourselves. However, the council has been on a tree-cutting expedition and condemned to the axe the basket willows which grow in our street and also several large shade trees in the reserve by Filzhcrbert street.
We cannot see any argument in favour of this action excepting that these trees are to be replaced by small shrubs which will give more colour. Trees are trees and never can their place be filled by small shrubs, however beautiful the latter may be during the week or so in each year when they are in flower. The Government is urging us by means of notices posted up in all parts of the country to avoid the lighting of fires and "save these trees which have taken years to grow." What a pity that they did not also direct a message to some of the local bodies who are so fond of using the axe. RESIDENT.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19860, 10 February 1939, Page 14
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198Tree Cutting Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19860, 10 February 1939, Page 14
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