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Title: The Spike or Victoria College Review 1947

Editor: H.W.G.

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association, 1947, Wellington

Part of: The Spike: or, Victoria College Review

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The Spike or Victoria College Review 1947

A MAN AFTER OUR OWN HEART Here's a man to whom the N.I.M.U. would like to show its appreciation ... a man who turned his back upon a very convenient natural fireplace, and took the trouble to build another a safe distance away. He is a practical man. He saw the possibilities in the buttressed roots of the tree ... but it would have killed the tree. He knows that every tree spared Is a guardian for ourselves and our children against the great menace already facing us —erosion. It probably took a…

A MAN AFTER OUR OWN HEART Here's a man to whom the N.I.M.U. would like to show its appreciation ... a man who turned his back upon a very convenient natural fireplace, and took the trouble to build another a safe distance away. He is a practical man. He saw the possibilities in the buttressed roots of the tree ... but it would have killed the tree. He knows that every tree spared Is a guardian for ourselves and our children against the great menace already facing us —erosion. It probably took a hundred years to grow this tree; his campfire could destroy it in as many minutes. His fire-site a little way off will point the way to others who come, that they in turn may honour the venerable years in the tree; so may it lend us shade and protection for hundreds of years. FOR EXTRA VALUE... EXTRA PROTECTION N-I-M-U NORTH ISLAND MOTOR UNION INSURANCE COMPANY A CONTRIBUTION BY THE N.I.M.U. INSURANCE COMPANY TOWARD THE PRESERVATION AND BEAUTIFICATION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE.