Initiative: there's a fortune in them there 'weeds'.Generations of Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, dwellers have known them as camphor camphor (kăm`fər), C10H16O, white, crystalline solid ketone with a characteristic pungent odor and taste. It melts at 176°C; and boils at 204°C;. trees and they have graced the city's streets for a century or more. Now the city fathers have decided in their wisdom that the stately plants are "alien invaders" and "weeds" and they have to go. The problem, of course, is how to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose the majestic foreigners and what to do with them once they've been felled. And who's to foot the enormous bill? Enter Bruce Hagemann, owner of Thekwini Tree Felling, who did a deal with the municipality MUNICIPALITY. The body of officers, taken collectively, belonging to a city, who are appointed to manage its affairs and defend its interests. to cut the trees down for free, and only make a charge for carting them away. Hagemann is making money from the trees in another way. Camphor wood is in great demand in the Yemen and there manufacturers are willing to pay good money for as much as they can get. They have signed Thekwini up in a contract to supply 100 tons of the timber a month for as long as the supply of trees lasts. In the Yemen the lumber will be used to make kists, chests and other types of furniture for a market crazy about the camphor trees' red and orange wood and musky musk·y 1 adj. musk·i·er, musk·i·est Of, relating to, or having the odor of musk. musk  i·ness n. smell. (There's a Pied Piper Pied Pipercharms children of Hamelin with music. [Children’s Lit.: “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” in Dramatic Lyrics, Fisher, 279–281] See : Enchantment in this story, somewhere). |
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