A FOREST RESERVE.
A number of citizens intend to wait upon the City Council at their meeting on Thursday night to obtain the aid of the municipal body in the setting aside of a forest reserve at Waitakerei. We have several times referred to this object as a most desirable one, and it was emphatically dealt with by Professor Thomas in his lecture at the opening of the session of the University. It is proposed to obtain an "Auckland Forest Reserve," which would be preserved intact for all time. There, within an easy drive of the city, strangers could be shown specimens of the lordly kauri, peculiar to this northern part of New Zealand, the nikau palm, the many forms of tree fern, and all the beautiful and remarkable trees and shrubs of the New Zealand bush. The reserve would have to be of considerable extent, because a small patch, with people cutting and clearing on all sides ot it, could not be preserved. Probably something about 2000 acres would be the most convenient size. The proposal is, we understand, that the Council should ask the Government to hand over to them a portion of the Crown lands of the district, or some of the reserves which are already made.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9493, 24 April 1894, Page 4
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