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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22072, 21 April 1937, Page 8

“Why is it that at a certain season of the year London society men troop northward to the grouse moors of Scotland, Oxford and Cambridge dons and students to the peaks of Switzerland, and American businessmen to the forests and lakes of Canada?” asked Mr F. W. Furkert, speaking on “The Call of the Wild” at a Wellington Rotary Club luncheon. Since the industrial revolution, man had tended to get further and further away from Nature, .he said, but Nature still asserted herself through the thin veneer of civilisation. “There is an urge to go where we like and to do what we like. To do this, man has to pit himself against all the elemental forces, and most of all against himself.” “The Forest and Bird Protection Society Has received a report which indicates gross mismanagement because of lack of system in New Zealand afforestation policy,” said the president (Captain E. V. Sanderson), speaking at Wellington. “High up on Mount Tohgariro,” this report states, “a wonderful native-owned forest is being felled by a Syrian. This forest, which is at an elevation of 3000 feet, should be part of the Tongariro National Park, but we have been told that no funds are available to purchase it, though finance is usually forthcoming for such schemes as the new road to Milford. Exploitation invariably dominates conservation in New' Zealand.” „