FINE SCENIC RESERVE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 8, 10 January 1934, Page 7

FINE SCENIC RESERVE

PUKEKURA PARK EXTENSION

1 (By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")

. ~ NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Following the recent presentation to the Borough of>Now Plymouth of.'tho magnificent. Brooklauds Estate, adjoining the famous Pukekura Park, native bush in tho Highlands Estate, and contiguous to' the Brooklands, Estate, has been dedicated- to tho borough by the owners, Messrs. T. C. List.and C. A. Wilkinson, M.P. -

The area of the dedicated property is about nine acres, and togother with the Brooklanda Estate and Pukckuru Park will mako a scenic reserve of unrivalled beauty. The bush is in its pristino state, and will make a splendid complement to the Brooklands property. It will permit in time of uninterrupted walks and drives from the centre oi! New Plymouth for well over a'mile to tho borough boundary. The .necessary land for two entrances to tlio new reserve has also been de'dicateil.

general staff. They wanted to be assured that in case of trouble Britain would send- their navy to their defence. Yet Australia had been unwilling to agree to a boycott of Japan because of her woollen exports to that country. "You cannot have it all ways," Mr. Baker continued, "you cannot ask for the British Navy and be unwilling to- give up woollen exports to Japan. We could only send our Navy, to Asia if the League keeps the peaco in Europe. I think that we are driven back from every angle to tho Covenant of 'the League." The League had not yot failed, but it would fnil unless they made up their minds what they really meant to do about it, unless they were prepared to use its machinery, and to make sacrifices in doing so.