What remains of Jan and Tony's Norfolk pine. Photo / Bevan Conley.
A retired Okoia couple want people in Whanganui to keep any eye out for an unusually large Christmas tree.
The retired farmers, Jan and Tony, say the Norfolk pine they had worked so hard to get going was chopped down and stolen in the night by "bloody mongrels".
"It was
quite a big tree. We bought it from a place in Palmy," Jan said.
"We'd paid $130 or $140 for the thing. When we got it, it would have been about 3 years old then. I've always wanted a Norfolk pine."
She said it was likely the culprits took the pine to use as a Christmas tree - despite the fact it was more than 8 foot tall.
