DESTRUCTION OF NATIVE BUSH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21145, 1 October 1930, Page 8

DESTRUCTION OF NATIVE BUSH.

———-«««»»«v« v» iwint nuon, TO THE EDITOB. \ Sir,—D r Riley is not the only person ■who is viewing-with alarm the continued destruction or our native bush in the city reserves. On all sides one hears expressions of dissatisfaction at the apparently unlimited powers allowed to the superintendent of reserves. Perhaps the trouble is that, not being a New Zealander, he is not able fully, to appreciate the beauties of our native bush. The Reserves Committee is either not sufficiently interested or not capable of insisting that what cannot be appreciated should at least be respected. A few years ago one could walk along tracks through the bush in the upper Gardens, filling ones lungs with the exquisite and unique odours of native bush. Now there are unnecessarily wide paths bordered by more or less commonplace flowers and uninteresting shrubs in place, of the bush. We Dunedmites have always been justly proud of the natural beauties of our gardens, but when one thinks of the gardens in New Plymouth and other towns where those in charge have had the wisdom to conserve the beauties of their' native bush, one feels compelled reluctantly to admit that Dunedin suffers by comparison.— i am, etc., Dcnedin Native.