MORE GARDENS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 95, 13 July 1927, Page 16

MORE GARDENS

BOTANIC-RESERVE IDEA DEPUTATION’S REQUESTS A very representative deputation from horticultural and similar interests waited on the Parks Committee of the City Council yesterday afternoon and asked the committee to consider the establishment in Auckland of a botanic garden. The committee was told that the council of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture had appointed a committee with the object of getting established a national botanic garden, the idea being that the Government should declare the municipal gardens of each of the four centres a national botanic garden, with a Botanic Garden Board to assist in the management in an advisory capaoity. The deputation suggested that the City Council might set up a special committee to consider the prospective site and plan its development. It was suggested that botanic gardens were of educational, commercial and scientific value. The deputation included Professor 11. H. Corbin (Professor of Forestry at the Auckland University College), the Hon. G. Fowlds (Auckland University College Council), Professor H. W. Segar (Auckland Institute and Museum), Mr. G. Mills (Auckland Horticultural Society), Mr. W. Page Rowe (Auckland Town Planning Association), Mr. R. Patterson (Department of Agriculture), Mr. G. A. Green (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research), and Mr. N. R. W. Thomas (secretary of the Auckland council of the Institute of Horticulture). Cr. F. W. H. Brinsden promised the requests due consideration.