FAITH SHOWN BY WORKS

Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 8

FAITH SHOWN BY WORKS

A correspondent writing in • this issue'wonders when action will follow the excellent advice given about preserving and replacing our unique flora. Believing that there is latent initiative in , "the many keen citizens", in our midst, he suggests the forming of a Hutt Road Beautifying Society, and with that proposal we agree: ■ But 'it seems that there are two courses before the many keen citizens: (1) They can pay into a society and create a fund to employ other people at preserving and plantling native vegetation; (2) they can become working members of a society or committee, engaged in planning, collecting seeds or plants, planting, weeding, protecting, etc. There is a difference between the man who merely pays and the man who plants.' The man who plants generally becomes keen enough not only to plant but also to pay, and his direct contact with Nature and with our unique vegetation is likely to spur him to maintain his subscriptions through a depression, instead of leaving his society (as has happened in specific cases in the last two or three years) fundless. . Jf it should be said that the many keen 'citizens, live too, far away from tlie Hutt Road to work in the evenings' .on A its slopes, the answer seems to'^be found in a proposal- (elaborated some1 time ago in the "Evening Post") to form street or block committees in.the Welling, ton suburbs for the purpose of planting the,street margins and particularly thessteerpr gorse-infested faces. This latter is a real problem, involving experimentation (some of which has already been taken up by private persons) and challenging the creative genius of our. many keen citizens.. By working in their own streets they could discover their own horticultural genius, and then could become reliable paying members of the Hutt Road Beautifying Society.