UNAUTHORISED TREE
APPEARS IN SYDNEY AUTHORITIES BAFFLED SYDNEY, March 10. Since the night of February 20, a small tree has stood at the base of of Queen Victoria’s statue in Queen’s Square, protected by a wooden guard. It has excited no curiority on the part of civic authorities, the Hyde Park gardeners, or anybody else within whose province it might be to wonder why it was there. Yet on the tree-guard is a plate, inscribed for all to read: Planted by the warden of St. Paul’s College, 20/2/39. Arthuro Garnseiensis. “Joo Jo Jah” tree. The warden of St. Paul’s College, at the Sydney University, is Canon Arthur Garnsey, but he denies having planted the tree. Nobody has ever been given .authority to do so. However, a reliable authority explained yesterday that the tree owes its presence to a ceremony performed on the night of February 20, at 10 o’clock, by a party of undergraduates. They dug a hole, planted the tree, erected the guard and attached the plate without exciting the slightest interest. From the same source, it is learned that the tree has been tended from time to time in the dead of night by young gentlemen wearing pyjamas. The tree appears to be in a very flourishing condition.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19898, 28 March 1939, Page 5
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210UNAUTHORISED TREE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19898, 28 March 1939, Page 5
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