STUDY OF HORTICULTURE

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17438, 24 August 1928, Page 4

STUDY OF HORTICULTURE

NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN

HIGH SCHOOL ADVOCATED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 24.

At the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, the National Botanic-Gardens Committee reported that it had considex*ed the report furnished by Dr A. AV. Hill, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, ' Kew, who recently visited the Dominion. The committee was of the opinio'n that a main garden, primarily for the growth of indigenous plants, but also for a representative series of exotic plants, should be established in the neighbourhood of Wellington. A suggestion was made that Wilton’s Bush and certain adja’cent areas might, by arrangement with the AVellington City Corporation, be developed and administered as a National Botanic Garden by the Government. The following remits from the Auckland District Council were approved: That the institute supports the principle of the establishment of an agricultural high school in the vicinity of Auckland" rather than a technical or grammar school; that the conference should take steps to have the Waipoua Forest placed under the control of the Scenery Preservation Board, or some other, authority, for permanent reservation.