OTARI PLANT MUSEUM

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 8

OTARI PLANT MUSEUM

(To the Editor.)

Sir, I read with interest the article in "The Post" of the Bth inst. relative to the Otari Plant Museum and was astonished to read of the damage that has been done and is being done by hares to the young growth. It is also a matter of regret that so far only one person—J. B. McC, in "The Post' of the 11th inst.—has been sufficiently interested to write to you to make any suggestions for combating this destruction.

Surely, Sir, the position is not going to be left as it is. The Centennial Exhibition is almost upon us and no doubt among the many visitors to our shores will be prominent botanists and horticulturists who will make a point of inquiring alter the Otari Plant Museum —tor the work of Dr. Cockayne is well known and recognised beyond the confines of Wellington— and the citizens of Wellington will not. appear in a very favourable Ijght if we have to answer, "Oh, don't bother to go out there. The hares have eaten all the young trees and growth. Oh no! We haven't done anything about, it. We have been waiting for somebody to suggest something." The position cannot be left as it is. Something must be done, whether by shooting as suggested by "J.B.McC." or by poisoning or by trapping is not for me to decide. Has no other citizen of Wellington any views on the matter?—l am, etc., T.C.