Old tree 'chopped' by age and insects

Title: Old tree 'chopped' by age and insects
Creator: Matthews, Ray
Subject: Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- Pietermaritzburg
Subject: Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Date Issued: 1969-11-24
Date: 1969-11-24
Type: text
Type: clippings
Type: ephemera
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71921
Identifier: vital:29976
Description: Newspaper article: "Old tree chopped by age and insects. Age and insects have put and end to one of Maritzburg's national monuments. An acacia mimosa tree that stood in the centre lawn of the Parkside home of the Administrator of Natal since about 1800, has been chopped down for safety reasons. The stately old tree was National Monument and the plaque on the stump reads: Monuments Commission. Around this tree, Commandant A. W. J. Pretorius, member of the Volksraad and the Burgers of the Republic Natalia decided by a majority on July 5, 1842, to accept British rule.”
Format: 1 page
Format: jpg
Language: English
Relation: Eastern Province Herald
Rights: © Eastern Province Herald
Rights: This item is made accessible via Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) - see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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