WILD FLOWERS.
QUEST OF PROTECTION. (Per Press Association., WELLINGTON, January 26. “They don’t know what they are talking about,” said Dr. L. Cockayne, gt to-day’s meeting of the New Zealand Institute, when the matter of the sale of wild flowers in the national reserve at. Arthur’s Pass came up. Last year the Institute had protested against this 'practice and had been informed by the Tourist and Lands! Department that the Scenery Preservation Bdard had recommended that the land with hush on it should be made a scenic reserve, and that the necessary steps were being taken to cany out this recommendation. ,
“We are not asking for the preservation of a piece of forest country, but of open country with wild flowers on it,” said Dr. Cockayne. “They can’t get forest out of their minds. It is that actual saddle that is covered with all sorts of things that we want looked after.”
Mr Henry Hill: But it doesn’t ii jure flowers to pluck them and se. them.
Dr. Cockayne: Doesn’t it. They pull them up, roots and all. The chairman (Mr B. C. Aston): In America there is a law against such practices. It was decided to write to the Department drawing attention to its error.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 91, 27 January 1928, Page 2
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