THE WANGANUI.
j Our contemporary, tho Wanganui I Hearld, is making a gallant fight for the bush clad parks of the Wanganui, and to save that in the hills and gullies close in which the Native Department leases are sacrificing. We boast of our New Zealand Rhine and if there is anything in our boast should take every care that it is preserved as much as possible in its pristine beauty. But as the Herald points out, if the bush destruction goes on there won't be any New Zealand Rhine to boast about, for not merely will the beauty have departed, but the water with it, and instead of the deep and constant river we will have another of those wretched intermittent streams, snag-studded, now shallow, now flooded and washing away banks and deltas, but always unnavigable. It is not a pleasant picture but it will scarcely be an over drawn one of the protective and beautifying bush is destroyed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 324, 28 January 1908, Page 4
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