SANCTUARIES & RESERVES

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 8

SANCTUARIES & RESERVES

TO TRI IDITOR,

Sir,—The goats of various species have little to thank you for, but every Nature lover throughout the Dominion is grateful to you for saving Kapiti.- True, at present we have little more than a politician's promise that the recommendations made in your contributed articlf in December last will be carried out. Still, it has been clearly Bhoi?*i to the authorities that the public and the press are alert, and will not be burked in this matter. Naturally the Minister and his Department are somewhat hurt at'having their neglect, brought into prominence, and it is to be hoped tha,t when they have dealt with Kapiti they will stiffen up with regard to other sanctuaries, such as national parks, scenic and forestry reserves.

So far as I am aware no one has, as the Minister infers, suggested that Mr. Field, the member for Otaki, has been in any way neglectful. If we had more New Zealanders of Mr. Field's type in our Parliament, then I, dm sure that neither the press nor the public would find it necessary to take action with regard to our birds or our bush. His sympathy and his energy have always been in the direction of their preservation, as every Nature lover in this part of the Dominion, at any rate, know* well.—l am, etc.,

ANTI-GOAT.

7th March,