KEY POINTS:
- Is the money spent on the Queen St trees a waste?
The nikau palms gracing Queen St have cost $454,000, but nursery owners say ratepayers have snared a bargain.
Small groupings of the fully grown palms are giving a sense of the new $43.5 million Queen St, although it will be 10 years before an avenue of smaller, exotic liquidambars begin to create a dense canopy to rival the exotic trees that were cut down.
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