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Southland Times, Issue 25302, 4 June 1935, Page 3

“The Little Barrier is perhaps unique as being one of the few remaining large forested areas still retaining its primeval vegetation unharmed by introduced grazing animals,” stated Mr W. M. Hamilton, of the staff of the Massey Agricultural College, during an address to the first meeting of the Manawatu branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. “Probably few other areas,” he added, “could have been selected giving such a variety of plant habitat or such a large number of indigenous species in so limited an area, and the Little Barrier is a heritage of which every New Zealander may be justly proud, for it serves at once as a sanctuary for both our flova and fauna, and preserver intact for future generations a piece of old New Zealand, now a fast-fading memory.”