Magnificent Gift to Whangarei

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 15, 13 April 1910, Page 19

Magnificent Gift to Whangarei

F. G. Radcliffe, photo. \e' \ - I 1 * 1 ? **. i ’r.* 1 4’. 1 ‘'l- 1 , 1 V 1 V uii'’ 1 ’• . I that town, with 122 acres of magnificent native bush as a public domain. The forest was for years most carefully preserved by Mr. Bobbie, and the people of Whangarei now reap •” 1,,n - • l"‘:! k ‘ •' P'lldn- >oeial tendered to him last week. tin- donor said: "I wish to impress upon you especially the rising generation the vital importance of protecting the bush from tin*, gum diggers, eattle, fern eol- . • .'»r». ami from depredators in general. lie .ominended the reserve to the .-are of the Boy >rouis. who "could tight the Philistines who would disfigure the Parahaki bush." The photo on the left is taken in the heart of the Parahaki bush. Mr. Bobblea girt to w aangarei. 1 he upper picture on the right shows a beautiful piece of scenery in the same bush, and at the bottom is a manuka grove where Lord Glasgow was entertained al a picnic in IN! MJ.