\u201cOur Queen Elizabeth Park kaitiaki Mike \u2013 he is dreading every morning coming to work because we are losing plants out of the park regularly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis main concern is that with Armistice Day coming up very shortly, the area around the Anzac Memorial was getting targeted \u2013 we are losing lots of plants.\u201d<\/p>\n
The incidents had come after several mature k\u014dwhai trees in the suffrage memorial grove area below the park\u2019s swing bridge were chopped down with chainsaws this month and a large tree felled at Henley Lake several weeks earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are also getting vehicles deliberately knocking over general road signs,\u201d Osland said.<\/p>\n
One vehicle had been captured on CCTV at Hood Aerodrome stopping, pulling over on to the berm and deliberately knocking over a sign, he said.<\/p>\n
This had been reported to police.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the type of stuff we are experiencing week to week now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Councillor Andrea Jackson asked if Osland could give an estimate on what the repeated acts of vandalism were costing ratepayers but this information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n
He said council contractors were being distracted from contractual work because they were having to continually fix public property.<\/p>\n
LDR is local body journalism funded by RNZ and NZ on Air.<\/p>\n