THE TONGARIRO PARK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19376, 10 July 1926, Page 11

THE TONGARIRO PARK.

VIEWS OF SCIENTISTS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Friday. At a meeting of the Standing Committee of the New Zealand Institute considera- . tion was given to the minutes of the last I meeting of the Tongariro National Park | Board and a resolution setting forth the policy of the institute was unanimously carried. The committee says it considers that the flora and fauna of the park should be protected against the competition of any plant or animal foreign to the park and to this end the institute seeks to prohibit the encouragement of any foreign plant or animal to make its home in the park. The institute is strongly hostile to the introduction of foreign game birds or animals and to plants which would be necessary as food for them. The guiding principle in the development of the park should be that the natural features are preserved with only that a!.oration that the passage of time effects and that the wild life, both plant and animal, should be protected so that the paru will afford for all time to the native born an example of primitive New Zealand. "In conformity with this policy, the institute," says the committee, "strongly opposes: (1) The granting of leases of any portion of the park to private iodividuals; (2> the milling of any timber within the park; (3) that where permission is granted to acclimatisation societies or other bodies to import foreign plants or animals to New Zealand the authority granting the permit does so on the understanding that plants or animals are liberated in districts remote from natwnal parks."