SPARE THAT TREE

Forest and Bird, Issue 107, 1 February 1953, Page 12

SPARE THAT TREE

MRS. SPARROW, for some time Secretary of our Auckland Section, writes as follows in “Home and Building”, when discussing the man who has at last acquired a beauty spot for his weekend relaxation.

“He is going to have a little place of his own . . . where he can really enjoy the summer. 1 . . . But all this takes time to materialise. . . . He fells the trees . . . then phones the bulldozer man.

“We have all seen . . . busy little people wearing themselves to death, fighting the clock with axe and spade, to make their once charmingly rural section just like the town section from which they fled.

“Of course, a large proportion of these new home owners are full-time residentials, but owing to the long time involved in travelling to the City,

these people have only the week-end to garden. This often means a week-end of really' hard toil just to keep things in order. Now think of the other way. Leave the natural covering, tea tree, natives, the happy inconsequential bush where you are fortunate enough to have it. It will give you privacy, needs little attention, is freshly sweet and always beautiful in its way of growth. Where your section has been cleared before you came, put it back in its natural garb and . forget the week-end drudgery. “If you can keep to this your ‘little place in the country’ will be a joy.”