"A Great Shame."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 288, 8 May 1914, Page 5

"A Great Shame."

•DESTRUCTION OP BUSH. THE EVERETT ROAD RESERVE. PROTEST PROM CHRISTCHURCH. By Telegraph-Press Association. T , , „ Last Night, niimtf ! OWJII S tcle g r 'im, signed by a n ' 1 prominent Christchurch p eo - P'V' waß forwarded on Tucadav i/n„ '■we er +h f Un '! s (llon - w - F - :Masst> y) •• He, the undersigned, concur in the E°Xott p ! 1 T i ias I>een made that the Everett Road Reserve, near Inglewood h '/ lf 'f royed ' and we str <>iigInn A ?° U declar o so much of the land as is covered with forest a scenic cserve, and so preserve it for all time sTribS fl th: e r1 e G f ette not " scribing the timber for sale and it shows that the forest is of magnificent character, which it would be 1 S SZ VT oy -- There are to ° countrv W P '; j , meVal forest of this H W ° Ukl ! ' oi,lt out that the reserve of the primeval forest of the country does not belong to the people of the district in which it exists but to the people of the Dominion.' We the r for^t ea W CStly yOU not to mll tie lorest. If you cann , o t sce your wav clear to set the forest aside as a LS reserve, without some monetery com" pcnsation to the Government, we wouW ask you to allow the people to buy the trees in order that the forest may be win t7l - e , sincerel y trust that you the for«w Z® aCtion to wi tMraw to forest trees from sale, and to declare the land a scenic reserve. In doing so, we believe you would bp acting witii the concurrence and in accordance with the wishes of the Lat majority of the people of this country"