CITIZENS SHOULD PROTECT RESERVES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 390, 26 June 1928, Page 8

CITIZENS SHOULD PROTECT RESER VES

SYS nSo^ ; No other country in .. possesses more interesting “** | able public reserve* thun v D<i land. So said y*. Corbin, president It' 4?° r H. If Council of the Institute of ture, in making a plea for tematic control of naUonai reserves at the annual ** evening. meeting No other municipality h»a i magnificent asset as had i , sUc a i ■ the IV aitakere area he said* UCklaad the duty of citizens i Protect their national Serf' ** management of these .ri: TV not be haphazard *°Ui! vested in some bodv f ar r „ V | local prejudice. ' removed i Professor Corbin asked th. ' and the specific object of res.*®***? agement. and whether imn™, *“» could be made in the areS Pr °? ffi ’r. ideal was essential and the'm. ject of preservation of uf e £“* I serves should be defined. «- I Any improvement steps ~ prejudicial unless the controlling* were well informed by men scientific knowledge. “The possession of public declared the speaker. ■ i* a ’ to the civic spirit and the citizens. The following remit, to be for*,., to the annual Dominion confix ; was carried:—-That the AueSV' branch draws the attention of stitute of Horticulture as a wfc„! ''' the value and importance of m* public reserves of the Domini o a . considers that the institute should m steps with a view to obtaining tematic policy of conservation S control of these reserves.”