14,000 Signatures To Waipoua Petition
Ten thousand signatures have been collected by the New Zealand Forest and Bird Protection Society in support of the petition for the preservation of the Waipoua Forest, besides 4000 signatures from Northland areas, said the secretary of the Whangarei District Progressive Society (Mr W. R. Vallance) at the annual meeting last night. Altogether about 25,000 signatures could be presented to Parliament in support of the preservation of the forest, as the results had been “really outstanding,” Mr Yallance continued.
Mr J. R. Mcllraith said that the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce had received from 18 to 20 petitions from chambers throughout New Zealand. Those from Invercargill and Palmerston North had run into three or four pages. “This is not a political question,” said the president (Mr J. F. Johnson). “If the Waipoua Forest goes, there will be no major tourist attraction in Northland and that' is why the society has taken up the petition.”
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Northern Advocate, 29 August 1947, Page 4
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