NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN.
HORTICULTURISTS' REPORT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The conference of the Institute of Horticulture considered the report of its national botanic gardens committee, which said that it had considered Dr. Hill's report and was of opinion that the main garden, primarily for the cultivation of indigenous plants, but also for the cultivation of a representative series of exotic plants should be established in the neighbourhood of Wellington. The suggestion was made that Wilton's bush and certain adjacent areas might, by arrangement with the Wellington City Corporation, be developed and administered as a national botanic garden by the Government. The following remits from the Auckland District Council were approved: "That the institute supports the principle of the establishment of an Agricultural High School in the vicinity of Auckland, rather than a technical or grammar School"; "that the conference should take steps to have the Waipoua forest placed under the control of the Scenery Preservation Board or other authority for permanent reservation."
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 198, 23 August 1928, Page 9
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