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Northern Advocate, 31 January 1939, Page 4

Readers Write

The following piece of humour taken from “Punch” may interest your readers:

SAVE THE TREES.

To think that that superb and lovely tree, Will be wood-pulp in a

year or two. To. take the printed thoughts of fools like me, And pass them on to imbeciles like you. As yet we in New Zealand have not started using our • native trees for wood pulp, and no doubt many of us hope we never will. So the clipping taken from “Punch” hardly fits our case.

It is, however, quite certain that the young kauri rikas referred to in your Saturday’s issue could not have been worse employed as paper than as mine props.

I like your term “aristocrat” as applied to the kauri, but evidently it is only a commonplace tree ; iln the minds of those men who sell it for commonplace work when there is no shortage of \other kihds of timber that would serve the same purpose.— “NATIVE BUSH.” .4

It would be interesting to know the position regarding public bodies desirous of holding picnics on the

RUAKAKA DOMAIN.

Ruakaka Domain. I ] always understood the Domain was a pub- j lie reserve for the 3

use of the public in general, 1 On January 25, the Ruakaka School I Committee and children were as- ] sembled on the domain to hold their, annual picnic. When the picnic was ] about to commence, the chairm'an of 1 the Domain Board (Mr D. K. Me-. Cathie) informed one of the school! committee members that we could ' not hold our picnic there because we had not made application to do so. The committee were discussing the matter when the chairm'an and a member of the Domain Board approached, the membejr offering hip services (for the second time), and the chairman dairying that we had no right to hold our picnic on what he termed the motor camp are&, asserting that the campers .might object. I may say, in fairness to the campers, that I knew they were too intelligent and broadminded to object, even if they had the right. Now, sir, I am advised that this •area (the only suitable area on which to hold a picnic) has been gazetted as a motor camp site, and that the public of Ruakaka and environs are not allowed to hold a picnic without the consent’ of vector campers who may be camped there. Would it be asking too much to ask the chairman of the Domain Board to explain the position to the public.—J. CROMPTON, chairman, Ruakaka School Committee.