DESTRUCTION OF NATIVE SHRUBS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19271, 8 September 1924, Page 8

DESTRUCTION OF NATIVE SHRUBS.

TO THE EDITOB. q-a —The shrubs and plants all round I*vke Wanaka are heavily protected So also are tto Plants and shrubs on both sides of the Upper Chitha River, from the lake to W-ate? Those on Mount Iron were more recently protected. From a scenic point of S that is very desirable, especially a* moat of our mountains arc now. so devoid of vegetation that they are looking hungry and barren. Mount Iron, however, baa been on fi« from end to end, and many native shrubs have been burnt. Why did not the L,and Board warn its tenants not to burn +£;? orpins ritrhts? Where is the. local Mount Iron will be unless fo° grazing after burning. The fern will simnlv grow up again and choke out all the Smb. There* thousand* of young maiKuka trees, which would have made Mount Iron very picturesque in time and have afforded large quantities of fuel in the future, the land bing fit for nothing else, .but these have all manukas seed only at inwvals o! years. As burning the gross in vears nas done so much harm, we would r a tur y ally have thought that the burning mania was at an ond.-I Up . Pembroke, Stepember 5.