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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5144, 27 June 1927, Page 3

“It seems hardly necessary to do more than affirm this proposition. The natural beauties of a country are hardly more the heritage of the nation inhabiting it than we are the glories of its architecture. Indeed, these very beauties will be enhanced or debased according to the standard of architecture which prevails. It is not necessary to go back to the glories that were Greece and. the grandeur that was Rome to support the argument. We have had striking evidence during the past year of a growing public sensitiveness, which is being outraged by the carrying out of building operations, particularly in rural England, which are divorced' from all architectural merit. The Council of the Preservation of Rural England is no association of visionaries, faddists, and cranks. Its constituents form a solid and representative body of public opinion. It comprises the great associations of local authorities, and of those experts in the matters to which its attention is directed. The truth is that the formation of this council marks a definite stage in public consciousness. A new Lecky, writing a history of the development of taste, would point out that in this council we have the outward and visible sign of a definite public recognition that h a^ interests cannot be fully satisfied by the attainment of purely utilitarian ends. To usefulness: must be added beauty.”—Major Harry Barnes, -chairman of the R.I.BLA. Registration Committee, in the “Architects* Jouriial.” Deep down in every human heart; The wish to help a brother, It is of life the noblest part, Except the love of mother. Oh, Woods’ Great Peppermint Core I s aid, For colds you may discover It is the thills' for man and maid,. For sister, mother, brother.