TREES IN KENT TERRACE
“LIKE A MANGY DOG”
Much was heard in court yesterday of the tree*| in Kent Terrace. One witness, when aslcad of these, said: “Trees out of place are so many weeds, just as matter out of place is so much dirt Here we have these melancholy things (meaning cabbage trees) flapping their broken wings in the wind.” When further pressed upon this mutter, the witness said: “My early recollections of this area is of a calfskin covered trunk which my mother had, and which was worn in patches like a mangy dog ” Mr A. L. Hunt, who had persisted, in the face of great opposition, to advance the merits of cabbage trees, exclaimed: “What is wrong with cabbage trees, anyhow? Are they bad for wood? Or what is it?”
Witness: I don’t see anything in them—flapping their wretched wings like a lame duck.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 9
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147TREES IN KENT TERRACE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 9
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