SAWMILL AT PIANO FLAT.

Southland Times, Issue 25342, 22 July 1935, Page 11

SAWMILL AT PIANO FLAT.

To the Editor. Sir, —I note from a par in your issue of the 16th inst that in consequence of the Forestry Department refusing to assent to the bush at Piano Flat being sold for sawmilling, a petition is being signed to get the department’s decision over-ridden. Piano Flat, with its beautiful beech bush, open grassy glades, crystal river, easy access and pleasant climate, is one of the most attractive camp and picnic spots in Southland. It will be nothing short of a calamity if this lovely, place should be ruined to supply an already glutted market with more second and third class beech. If the Forestry Department cannot protect it then it should be removed from that jurisdiction and made into a domain or scenic reserve under a board. What are the Southland League and other interested bodies doing? Are the people of Gore going to submit tamely to the possible destruction of their most accessible beech bush, and a popular resort? Are the fishermen of this district going to allow one of their prettiest fishing streams to be spolit without protest? I trust, Sir, that a more able pen than mine will take this matter up. and that you will give full publicity before it is too late.—l am, etc.

ANTI-VANDAL. Invercargill, July 20, 1935.