Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-12-18 | Page 20 | Rabbits Seen Bringing Ruin

RABBITS SEEN SEENi i BRINGING RUIN t WELLINGTON INS Reckless Reck less hess less importation of British plants c and and animals is now now threatening threaten i large Jarge areas of New Zealand with Butter utter titter ruin ruinS according to the minister minister minister minis minis- ter of Internal affairs W. W E E. Parry f f In our effort to be another t in the southern hemisphere hemisphere hemisphere hemi- hemi sphere sphere he said we have recklessly recklessly reck reck- lessly essiy imported plants and animals which amenable to control in their natural environment have run runaway away as cancerous growths out here The blackberry and the rabbit for instance have threatened to tomake tomake make whole tracts of land uninhabitable habitable j There is no no hope of disguising from from you for instance who have ha-e eyes eyes to see sec some of these mistakes Added Parry f Here we have a land favored Iby by a climate and fertility as few lands have been favored a land of glorious glorius beauty What we we lave have done to that land in certain directions directions in the process of making our home in it beggars description In the name o of settlement we have denuded hillside Of de and valley valley- in some cases devastated the countryside coun coun- replacing replacing beauty by ugliness ness ness virgin forest by rank weed t growth Mountainsides deprived of their forest clothing are s sparred scarred 0 by wounds of great landslides Look across this harbor of Wet We- lington and you will vIiI see what hat will vill appeal to you as the golden glory act of the English country gorse but which is a reproach to us in our our neglect to J keep our land clear of off f noxious weeds