A SCENIC SUGGESTION
'Sir,—The- Manawatu Gorge was at one time listed among the beauty spots of New Zealand, but now we don't_ hear much about it as a scenic, ass.et. Yet, if traversed on a sparkling summer's day, you wonder why, with all its seeming possibilities, it fails to impress you, and soon passes from your memory. Jf you hark back a bit to prc-railway days, you will lcmember that this gorge was arrayed in magnificent virgin bush, with stately forest trees towering skyward. But'man came, and the great bush fires came, and the original glory gixve place to charred trunks and black mountain sides. Nature is doing her best, covering the devastation with bushes and shrubs. But where are the great trees dhat once gave the Mauawatu its dignity and grandeur? It seems that a landscape gardener is nwded—one with vision—to plant trees on the spurs aud crags, so that to coming generations the gorge will rank in class A among New Zealand's scenic attractions.—l aon, et'c, H. S. COTTRELL Napier, November 11, 1919.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 41, 12 November 1919, Page 9
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175A SCENIC SUGGESTION Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 41, 12 November 1919, Page 9
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