Poor Landscaping 'Despoiling N.Z.'
(New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, June 26. New Zealand was fast being despoiled by faulty planning and was in desperate need of qualified landscapers, the senior lecturer in Horticulture at Lincoln College (Mr S. Challenger) said.
Mr Challenger was in Hamilton to address a meeting of the Waikato district council of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture.
“New Zealanders are much too heedless of the need for. planning,” he said. “There should be an entirely different attitude in this country toward the acceptance of this need, and a much better developed planning and landscaping system.” The shanty towns springing up at random around New Zealand’s coastlines were one facet of the Dominion’s lack of thoughtful planning, he said.
Faulty planning was especially disturbing in New Zealand because there were so many opportunities for good planning. Although New Zealanders were probably the most gar-den-conscious. in the world, they were definitely not de-sign-conscious, he said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 7
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158Poor Landscaping 'Despoiling N.Z.' Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 7
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