A Masterton councillor bent on preserving the Hosking Garden was forced to keep a vigil over "Please Save Me" signs he placed at the Queen Elizabeth Park site, after three went missing on Friday and Saturday.
Cr Roddy McKenzie said the first sign he erected, on Friday morning, had been removed by 2.30pm that day.
He put two more up the next morning, at the north and south ends of the garden, but they too disappeared shortly after.
On Monday morning he placed another two at the same spots and kept a watch over them for the rest of the day.
"I was a bit disappointed they got taken. I was just trying to make a point," he said.
A recommendation from the Queen Elizabeth Park Redevelopment Task Group to remove the garden in the current year - but leaving the baths "visible within a grassed area and a plaque acknowledging the historic swimming baths" - will be considered at a council meeting this afternoon.
Cr McKenzie said his phone had not stopped ringing since a front-page article appeared in the Times-Age on Friday.
"Plenty of them were just astonished that the gardens are being pulled down. A lot of them who know the whole history of them have a lot of feels about it. I should have written down every word that was said - it would've made for some interesting reading."
Hosking Garden signs removed
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