Trees In Kieta, Tng
p. 26 · Read in the full issue
W WAS much interested in Charles 1 Barrett’s photograph of Kieta in a recent PIM (writes Dr. C. M. Deland, of Adelaide). The trees in the fore ground are Poinciana and Jacaranda, alternately.
When I first went to Kieta in 1929, the foreshore was lined with a double row of huge old Ficus trees, and the resultant avenue was dark and dank. So I had those trees removed, and we planted the Poinciana and Jacaranda in 1931. It is good to see how they have survived, and how well-grown. The line extends from the native hospital, at the end of the bay, to Chinatown, at the other end.