A GUIDE TO THE ZOO.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2009, 17 March 1914, Page 6

A GUIDE TO THE ZOO.

THE PRESIDENT'S VIEW

} "Several persons have suggested that the City Council should print and publish a pudc to tiro goo, and that i should be.asked to supply some matter tor it. writes Mr. Jas.'Orewes. "Bufci" ho adds, "thft suggestion ha.s been mefrectiy-e, because in a young zoo so ■ many of the arrangements are merely temporary, or tentative, awl change's are so numerous and frequent, that a printed guide would be almost useless as soon as printed. Six months ago more than a hundred of the animals that arc in the Zoo to-day were not in tn© places that they now occupy and I ventwe tn predict that within the next sis months scores of changes must take place in the -location of the animals. ■ Tim Wellington Zoological Society annually publishes.a thousand ?0PI l G > S ° r, a llst Df all the animals in the Zoo, classified up to the end ©t the society s financial year: and Mr. John Castle, the well-known chemist at 2vewtown, is always ready to give a cow' to any visitor desiring,to know what animals are m the Zoo. But the time for a, useful plan of, and guide to the *500 t% not jiist yet." ' Referring to another matter Mr. Uowas writes:—"Last year 'mv society s _ art competitions' called, forth pictures -,of which tho sodetyaad its patrons wcro ■ proud, .the Isflw Zealand Academv of ' Fine Arts has appointed judges for another competition ■ whiili my society hopes to ■promote wisdivr the auspices of the Aeaferny. Artists and students of draw nig and painting, kindly get ready ' j please. -Mr. Castle, the treasurer'of the Zoological Society, will tell you when md on what conditions to start. J'nends of the society are reajec-tfitllv asked to send Mr. Castle, chemist, Ridnwo'fl Street South,,£lo to our prize