Woman Chopped Down 16 Council Trees
(By a Reuter Correspondent) PRETORIA. Still unrepentant about having chopped down 16 jacaranda trees which the Pretoria parks department insisted in planting in front of her house, Miss Sompie de Wet is being npade to pay a high price for giving vent to her feelings about Pretoria’s pride and joy. Besides being fined £2O for wilful damage to property by a Pretoria magistrate, she had been presented with a bill for £2O 17s 6d, which the city council estimates as the cost of 16 young jacarandas and the labour in-, volved in planting them in front of her house. Miss De Wet said: ‘TH just have to get used to living with them now as I cannot afford the luxury, at £4O a time, of chopping down the new row of 16. Besides, the blade of my axe is blunt.”
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28260, 24 April 1957, Page 6
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