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THE active steps taken by the New Zealand Government to preserve the original scenery of the Dominion are noted in the report on scenery preservation for the year ending March 1934. During the year, more than thirty new reserves were announced. They varied in size from small historic sites to areas of several hundred acres, the largest being about 9,000 acres in the Canterbury district, where a great area of beech bush has been set aside. The total area of scenic reserves in New Zealand is now about a thousand square miles, divided into about as many different parts. The Act of 1908 under which such area can be dedicated to public care has now been amended to allow of any landowner applying to have his land declared a private reserve. This will help to maintain the scenic amenities of New Zealand.
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New Zealand Scenery. Nature 135, 786–787 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135786e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135786e0