23 JUNE 1933, Page 16

Preservation is a difficult business, of course. As I read

an admirable anti-litter 'notiee on the top of Shotover, the " hare " in a paper chase ran past and deposited an unusually large consignment of his -ill-torn paper at the very foot of the warning ! The public in general is capable of many

sorts of offence' ; and here and there it may 'be wise to keep a holy of holies where only the high priests may penetrate ;

but it remains-that exclusion of the public is a bad principle and a counsel of despair.

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