DANGEROUS TREES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 66, 26 April 1946, Page 5

DANGEROUS TREES

GUMS IN DOMAIN MENACE OF FALLING LIMBS ‘‘There is a very real danger from those trees in the Domain” said Mr H. G. Warren, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce meeting last Thursday when discussing the blue gum plantation. “A good many of them have passed their maturity and are dying from the top down. As a result heavy branches are falling off regularly and if they should fall on any one there might be a serious accident.”

* Mr Warren related the experience of a camper, who had one of the limbs fall through his tent at night time narrowly missing his bunk. Some of the branches were so heavy that they penetrated the ground deeply and if they struck a child there would probably be a fatality.

Mr Brabant said the Domain Board had been trying for months to find a man who would be prepared to fell the worst of the trees for he timber but had so far been unsuccessful.

Mr Hubbard said the average contractor would only take the straight ones. The Board was fully aware of the danger but did not desire to cut the whole plantation down. Notices had been put up, but almost everything the Board did by way of notices was undone b hooligans whjo came there at night. It was a shocking thing to contemplate the abuse of the domain by a certain element.

he Board employed a man, but almost everything he did was undone by these irresponsibles.

Mr Brabant assured the Chamber L hat the Board was doing all it could to have the most dangerous trees renoved.