ALLEGED VANDALISM
HEDGE-CUTTIXCt 'AT WADESTOWN. Councillor W. 11. Bennett, at Thursday's meeting of the City Council, said he'liad been rung up repeatedly on Wednesday .mil Thursday from Wadestown 'bv people who were indignant fit the vandalism that was being shown by a gang of workmen who had .cut back a holly lietke between 30 ami 40 years old to baro poles.- Councillor Bennett said ■(here was nothing moro beautiful in the district than this hedge. • ~,,,, , . Councillor. 6. Frost said-that lie. iiad also been mug up and had made inquiries through the Director of.Reserves,.who hiid gone u.p. and stopped • the work as soon as was possible. The hedge had not been cut down, but-was, cut back by inea working under tlie City Engineer, but entirely without his knowledge or that the 'Director of Reserves. They all deplored the fact—'but the work had' been stopped. Tliey' slio'uld know why, this work bad been ordered and by whom. Councillor A. R. Atkinson said that someone should be severely reprimanded for what.was certainly,a piece of gross vandalism. -
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 175, 19 April 1919, Page 6
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173ALLEGED VANDALISM Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 175, 19 April 1919, Page 6
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