FOR THE BRAIN WEARY.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17966, 11 March 1930, Page 9

FOR THE BRAIN WEARY.

WILD-LIFE CAMP. BRITISH NATIONAL PARK. LORD BLEDISLOE’S PROPOSAL, After much pioneer “spade work” Lord Blcdisloc has brought lo the notice of ihc Government a proposal for flic establishment- of a national park of 40 square miles in the Forest of Dean and adjoining Grown lands. lie placed on Hie paper in the House of Lords a question asking the Government “whether they would consider Hie desirability of establishing in this country at least one National Park as a sanctuary for wild life and for urban dwellers of all classes and occupations when on (heir annual holiday, on the model of those existing in our Oversea Dominions and the United Slates and tiie special fitness of the Forest of Dean—which'already belongs to the nation—for this purpose.” The main objects of the scheme, as staled by Lord Bledisloe, are to provide a carefully protected sanctuary for wild flowers and ferns, birds, butterflies, and harmless animals, especially those which are becoming scarce as industries spread into the countryside, and to use this for the double purpose of inculcating the duty of protccling all that is beautiful in Nature and affording a haven of rest and recreation for brain-weary men and women of great centres of populafion. The latter would be achieved by means of carefully organised, “camps” of furnished hutments.