PRESERVING MOUNT SMART.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20098, 8 November 1928, Page 10

PRESERVING MOUNT SMART.

REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT. |

A plea for the preservation of Mount Smart is made in a letter forwarded by the chairman of tho One Tree llill Hoad Board, Mr. 11. I>. Dobbie, to the Minister of Lands.

Tho residents of the district, had appealed to him to ask tho Government to stop tho further destruction of this beautiful volcanic cone, stated Mr. l\>b--1 tie. Although tho hill was surrounded on all sides by the One Tree Hill Hoad Hoard district,, it was controlled by the. Hail way Department and tho Oiiehunga Borough Council He recently heard it stated by a member of this council that so little of the hill was left that it might as well all be cleared away. This was not correct. Nearly nine-tenths remained intact, including some four acres of tho summit, while on tho north-east side very little disfigurement was visible. It, was only on the south-west, the Onohunga side, that the scoria had been removed. Tho most wholesalo destroyer had been tho Railway Department., but as the cliffs had been sloped off as the work of spoliation went on, it would not require much work to restore the symmetry of the hill. The chairman's action was approved by the. board last evening.