TREATMENT OF TREES

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3209, 20 September 1934, Page 4

TREATMENT OF TREES

(To the Editor). Sir, —I fail to see the necessity for the ruthless cutting away of the branches of several'(isli and oak trees in Victoria Square, which has been going on this week. Cambridge citizens are justly proud of their beautiful trees, anti' this''drastic treatment is likely to rob the town of some Of its finest specimens. Tho oak between the cloek-tower and tho one remaining conifer has been reduced to an unsightly stump, and two or three'other trees across the road have been shorn’ of most of their limbs. What they will look like wken all the other trees around them arc in full leaf I shudder to think. Perhaps these trees have been reduced to their present pathetic state so as to bo in keeping with -the unsightly war relic, the German Howitzer, which has been moved (thank goodness) from its old position in the middle of the Jubilee Gardens to. one near the mutilated trees on the other side of the road. There it should feel at home. No doubt in years gone by, many of its shells shore the beauty from many equally beautiful trees in France.- — Yours, etc., u: PICARDY.