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Bed made, lying in it

In 2018, Masterton was outraged by a flower bed. The district council had decided that the cheerful plantings on a large traffic island on the way into the town had to go. We could no longer afford the water, estimated at the equivalent of 100 bathtubs-full a week, to keep all those pretty flowers blooming.

We didn’t care; we wanted our flowers. Masterton

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