COUNTRY GIRLS
HARBOUR EXCURSION VISIT TO RANGITOTO ' TALK ON FLORA OF ISLAND The country girls who are visting [Auckland for the educational course arranged by the Waitcmata provincial executive of the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union and the Auckland Federation of the Women's Institutes, were taken on an excursion to Rangitoto yesterday morning After lunch, an address on the flora of the island was given by Miss Kibblcwhito. Miss Kibblewhite emphasised the unique opportunity that the island offered to botanists of studying wonderful species that were found nowhere else in the world, and appealed to the girls' interest in preserving; them from destruction. She also urged the girls to do all they could as they grew older, to foster the conservation of native forests, pointing out the immenso harm done in the past through ignorance of the part that forests played in Nature's scheme of life. A vote of thanks was passed to Mrs. Judson for arranging the excursion.
In the evening the party were the guests of the Workers' Educational Association Dramatic Club in the association's rooms in Lower Symonds tstrcet.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23053, 2 June 1938, Page 4
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