The tragic scene in Townsville's Anderson Park Botanic Gardens is revealed in our exclusive photograph from Abra . Genial Billy Bombax , closely associated with the Mundingburra State School , encouraged people to be gentle with the planet . Now he has been ruthlessly cut down . It is suggested the wooden headed mainland media will also be chipped for failing to cover the long running demise of dear old Billy Bombax , only Little Darwin alert to the unravelling horror story , the gradual removal of limbs due to disease, his happy human face cut away in what must have been a painful nip and tuck , placed in quarantine soon after and finally given the Ryobi treatment . It is puzzling that this long running saga failed to rate a mention in the media but then so many other obvious stand out stories are missed in North Australia.
