NELSON
A BOTANIST’S PARADISE ' HOME OF TH- KIWI AND KAKAPO MAGNIFICIENT BEECH FORESTS (By Telegraph—Special to '"The Mail”) CHRISTCHURCH, 9th June During an address on his botanical expedition to the Nelson district to members of the Philosophical Institute, Professor Wall referred to many interesting features in connection with the fauna and flora of the district. One area, known’ as the Douland Downs, was unique, for it appeared to be the home of tlie kiwi and kakapo, those rather rare New Zealand birds being fairly numerous. Rare botanical specimens were also obtained from this area. He was also impressed by the prolific growth of nikau palms, especially in the neighbourhod of the Heaphv River. At the mouth of this river these palms flourished in luxuriance reminiscent of the South Sea islands of the Pacific.
The professor/further remarked that the Nelson district was more or less covered with a wealth of bush, the mountains being clothed sometimes up to 5000 feet with magnificent beech forest unbroken' by shingle by which (the bush-clad sides of the West'Coast mountains were scarred.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 10 June 1927, Page 4
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