ENGLISH FOREST AND N.Z.
BUSH
Much as he admired the New Zealand bush he did not prefer it to the English forest, because ■of one thing, said Mr. L. J. Wild, principal of the Feilding Agricultural . High School, speaking a{; the opening of the Rongotea flower ...show. ' ■. The bush in New Zealand was glorious, but it was always the same, in winter and in summer. Evergreen trees did not make for the change one had with deciduous trees. The ' speaker mentioned the change of colour with the coming and going of the seasons in England and said that that change, to his mind, was to be preferred. The New Zealand bush did not have that scope for change and variety, although it still was beautiful —or had been beautiful. The pity was that such a ruthless war had been waged upon it. We were attempting now to preserve tracts of native bush, which was all to the good. We had attempted, for. the sake of the stock, to replace the trees with macrocarpas and pine trees, but these were not the most beautiful of trees. Mr. Wild thought the matter should be taken up nationally. It was our duty to help to restore the bush that the pioneers, and our forbears, had helped to destroy.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 22
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215ENGLISH FOREST AND N.Z. Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 22
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