THE MOUNTAIN CLUB.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1914, Page 4

THE MOUNTAIN CLUB.

The Lyttelton Times thus refers to our Mountain Club,and its reference should give encouragement; The society for the protection of the native forests and bird life which has been formed through Mr Id. G. Ell’s patriotic efforts is finding sympathy and imitation outside the cities of Christchurch and Wellintgon. A Mountain Club which has just boon established at Stratford, in Taranaki, by Egmont worshippers and Xature-lovers, has for one of its chief objects the study and preservation of the flora and fauna of the fine forest which surrounds the “Father of Taranaki.” The principal founder of the club, Mr J. B. Richards, spoke at a meeting the other day of the great joy of gaining an insight into the native bush life and of locating particular trees, such as the giant ratas which are to be found in their glory on the lower slopes of Egmont. Districts like Taranaki are so eager, as a rule, to sweep the last vestiges of bush away that such organisations will come as salutary brakes upon the too-swift agencies of forest and forest-life destruction.