MASON’S GARDENS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 255, 22 July 1921, Page 6

MASON’S GARDENS

PROPOSAL TO PURCHASE FOR COMMUNITY. "Provided! a satisfactory offer is <>b ' tained from the ownere of Masons Gardens, the league agrees to co-operate with, the Wellington Town-planning Association in an. appeal to the public to raise the necessary funds for securing th* gardens for the community. ’ The foregoing resolution was earned unanimously, without discussion, at ths • annual meeting of the New. Zealand Forestry League last night. J n its annual report, the executive of the league had stated 1 : “The executive has spent ** considerable time in an endeavour to prevent the sale of Alason’s Gardens, which contain many valuable exotic I trees. The property on which these | trees grow is held by a land company, [with the object of cutting up for residential purposes. Appeals have been made io the Government and to local bodies to secure a portion of this land ns a forest reserve, or as au arboretum. So far the efforts of the executive hav« been unsuccessful. The land was put up to public miction, but it is understood that there were no sales made. The executive had the area suneyed, and there are alxiut twelve acres which certainly should be conserved. It would be nothing short of a crime to allow these valuable trees tn be ruthlessly destroyed, and ihe executive trusts that the annual meeting will make such representations ns will result in saving these valuable trees."