AKAROA.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14990, 10 June 1914, Page 5

AKAROA.

Nurse Bennetts, of the Christchurch Hospital, who has been in charge of the Akaroa Hospital for the last three months, left on Saturday. She was replaced by Nurse Gates, also of the Christchurch Hospital staff. The cutting down of Boleyn's Bush, Chorlton, means the destruction of one of the finest specimens of the primeval Peninsula forest, and many residents in the district regret that it is now being transformed into timber by the mill that has been installed there. The bush has, however, stood for many years, and the owners—the Boleyn family—have suffered n very great sacrifice in not utilising the 60 odd acres of valuablo land that it covers. It seems a pity that no effort was made to preserve" this fine bush (says the Akaroa "Mail")., though it could hardly be expected that the present owners could continue to <V> so. The bush unfortunately was rather out of the way of the ordinary tourist, otherwise it would have boen far more widely appreciated. The bush, however, is going to cut out a very valuable lot of timber, as it is expected to yield several hundred thousand feet of black pine or matai and totara. The mill is making good progress, but. it will be two or three years before it cute out the bush.