Arboretum declared open at dawn ceremony

By Hamish Boland-Rudder
Updated May 14 2021 - 12:09am, first published February 1 2013 - 6:38am

The smell of smoke wafting from near the visitor centre high on a hill overlooking Canberra was oddly appropriate for the beginning of a new era in Canberra's history - the opening of the National Arboretum.

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