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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21221, 30 December 1930, Page 8

Quo of Yorkshire's most beautiful dales was laid waste recently when week-end motorists stripped it of its glory of wild flowers. Practically every flower growing the seven miles length of the valley was removed. Unfortunately the news-, papers mentioned just before the weekend that the valley was a riot of colour. Six hundred motor cycles hud motor earfi, every one of whose occupants took heavy toll of the blooms, descended upon the valley on a Sunday. They took with them trowels and other implements which wore used to dig up the roots, It was a horrible display of vandalism, for the almost certain to die. * This kind of thing is taking place all over England. On Sunday evenings cars and motor cycles arc seen returning to the towns with masses of flowers and entire plants fixed to their carriers. It is doing incalculable harm to the beauty of the countryside, and in some places wild flowers, once common, arc now elttremelv rare.