NEW ZEALANDERS' REGARD FOR NATIVE BUSH
TESTIMONY OF MINISTER (press association tblegbam.) AUCKLAND, April 29. The Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon.' W, E, Parry) said to-day that he had been told it vould be diffipult to move New into enthusiasm on questions like saving native bush, and that they were too commercially minded to be interested in trees. ' * "I have proved that statement to be a libel on the people of this coun* try," said Mr Parry. "In almost everv mail that reaches my desk in parliament House there is a sometimes two or citizens, some of them on the land, bemoaning the threatened fate of a belt of native trees and ferns in a particular district. These communications come from all parts of the. Dominion, some from the , far north and gome from the far south," ___-_*
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22080, 30 April 1937, Page 6
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