A Welsh Park
There is good hope that the example set by Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis in Snowdonia may prove infectious and open a new chapter in preservation. As announced here a fortnight ago, he bought and secured for the National Trust a farm that was threatened with development, so-called, of the worst sort in the gorgeous wild country between Capel Curig and Beddgelert. The piece is about 300 acres only, but it is a real nucleus in the organic sense. The National Trust, in its present' form and constitution, has not money enough to buy unremunerative land ; but it can 'co-operate fruitfully with private owners who express the public-spirited desire to preserve natural beauty now and for the future. Among those who have expressed their keen interest in this purchase, and the prospect it opens of the beginning of a National Park, is Mr. Lloyd George, even in the midst of his great campaign. The district has such an outstanding claim to become the first National Park that any extension of this nucleus may prove the efficient cause, as Bacon used to say, of its actual creation ; and perhaps, incidentally, of some national endowment of the National Trust. Hafod Lwyfog farm is likely to be famous. * * * *
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