PUBLIC RECREATION GROUNDS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151033, 26 July 1919, Page 4

PUBLIC RECREATION GROUNDS.

:; ACCIDENTAL AND WILFUL [ DAMAGE. Reporting to the City Council last t evening, the (Jity Engineer stated that , extensive damage had been done to the trees on the Sands Reserve, partly. by fire and in other cases wilfully. During the past summer three fires had • Occurred, by which 50 trees were de- . stroyed, 13 of them being on the-outer sandhills. Two trees had also been destroyed with axes, one of these, a : tree about 20 feet high and 10 inches ■- in diameter, had evidently been taken for firewood. The other was a larch, tree about 10 feet in height and 4 inches in [ diameter. The estimated 1 £hVn °n ?■ tr- ees destroyed was over 1 ft^ U- , Co»tmui»gi the Engineer said: • Wanton damage has been done on the - : lort road, two of the lime trees bei tween the walking and cycle tracks i having been broken off level with the i ground. On the wider areas between the cycle path and the road a number of the trees lately planted have been destroyed. These areas are used by ; the children of the neighbourhood as . playgrounds, and I think it would be a proper thing to recognise them as s such, and to remove the small trees ■ and to do something towards improving the grass surface."