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Kōrero: City parks and green spaces

Enemies of beautification

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Enemies of beautification

Efforts to beautify urban environments are sometimes thwarted by less appreciative members of the community. Acts of vandalism are nothing new, as this column in the Evening Postof 24 January 1913 demonstrates.

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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: Evening Post, 24 January 1913, p. 6

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Kerryn Pollock, City parks and green spaces – Community guardianship, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20581/enemies-of-beautification (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 26 February 2010.