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.”
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:rhodes/vital:29976 |
| Date | 24 November 1969 |
| Creators | Matthews, Ray |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, clippings, ephemera |
| Format | 1 page, jpg |
| Rights | © Eastern Province Herald, 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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