Friends of Pukekura Park president Adrienne Tatham approaches a puriri tree in Brookland Park believed to be 2000 years old. Bublitz said tree cover in the Maranui gully had become thin, as trees had died or been brought down by council arborists. Friends of Pukekura Park president Adrienne Tatham is a great-granddaughter of Newton King, a local businessman who bequeathed Brooklands to the city in 1934. Friends of Pukekura Park Friends of Pukekura Park members Adrienne Tatham and Lynn Bublitz. It was not considering installing boardwalk there, but had previously done so in other areas of the park where trees had needed protection.

Source: Stuff January 06, 2021 01:52 UTC