BELLBIRD’S NOTE
To be Heard at Waipoua Kauri Forest MINISTER’S CHOICE Foon the musical note of the New Zealand bell bird will be heard from the tops of the giant kauris in the Waipoua forest. North Auckland, where thousands of people trek annually to explore the wonders of the dense native bush. TVhen the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, visited the far north last week he saw file desirability of completing the native attractions of the Waipoua forest, and under his sanction, the director of the Dominion Museum at Wellington. Mr. W. Olliver. has arranged to have a number of bellbirds liberated there. It has not been decided where the irds will be secured, but it is possible tnat some of them will be available at Motuihi.
. Minister will return to Well- ; U ? tOQ week, when steps will be , en to have the birds captured and transferred.
The popularity of Waipoua forest as * c *nic reserve is growing rapidly, nd since the roading work was pushed e ad and the Railway Department instituted Periodical week-end axcur- - °ns there, the pilgrimage to the kauri P antation has become annually hf^? ter \ The presence of th* belliras will add to its native beauty.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 598, 26 February 1929, Page 1
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207BELLBIRD’S NOTE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 598, 26 February 1929, Page 1
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