SCENERY PRESERVATION
Last year about 94,000 acres were permanently added to the scenic reserves of the Dominion. Ninety-six separate 10eervea were made in various districts. Generous donations were ako made by private citizens during the year, and the total area of reservations now amounts to 160,000 acres, comprised in 262 sepoiate areas. The total expenditure for the year was £5938. "On the whole," says the annual report presented to Parliament yefiterday, 'the past year has been a distinctly satisfactory one. A large area, of land has been acquired and reserved ; the expenses have not been more than the average; there has beeo a conspicuous absence of fires in the reserves ; much unique scenery has been surveyed for reservation and will soon be gazetted ; a sympathetic interest k being taken in the work of scenery-preservation, and the public are generally realising that it is in their own interests that the work is being carried on ; and. there is every prospect that in the near future the. inhabitants of New Zealand, as well as visitors (both scientific and pleasureseeking), will recognise that in the extensivo and varied scenery of the Dominion there exists a. vast and valuable heritage that is paralleled in very few countries and surpassed in none."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 29, 2 August 1912, Page 2
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207SCENERY PRESERVATION Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 29, 2 August 1912, Page 2
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