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(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, Feb. 24. It was high time that the English-speaking races returned to promoting a love of beauty and of the environment if they hoped to have a better world to live in, the former Minister for the Environment, Mr Duncan Maclntyre, said in Wellington today. He was "opening the twenty-third annual conference of the Interflora Pacific Unit, which was attended by more than 100 florists from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. “The industrial-age phil-
osophy divides things into two arbitrary classes: useful and frivolous,” Mr Maclntyre said. “We can’t really say that flowers are a part of our lives when a man is reticent about carrying them publicly, and reluctant to display them amid the files on his desk at work.
“More than any other subject, the environment teaches us that there is only one world we must all share, and I hope that you can encourage the appreciation of flowers at all levels, among all races, as another step towards understanding our environment and its needs.”
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33777, 25 February 1975, Page 3
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