By W. H. Selivay. 
71. 
S.A. NAT., VOL. XV. 
June 12th, 1934. 
account is given in a letter to the “Register,” published on Oct¬ 
ober 7th, 1901. It was written by Mr. M. Symonds Clark, the 
successor to Mr. Robin as Secretary of the F. 6c F. Committee, 
who resigned in 1895 owing to ill health. 'The chief object of the 
letter was to show that it was Mr. Robin’s persistent and un¬ 
tiring exertions which led to the Act of 1891 being passed, which 
Act vested the Park in Trustees. We must not forget, however, 
that the plan of vesting it in Trustees was conceived by Mr. 
Dixon and he himself claimed that the successful fruition of his 
motion of 21/8/’88 entitled him to be regarded as the “Founder” 
of the Park (vide report of F.N.S. for 1912/13). 
It may be added that Mr. Clark, in his letter referred to 
above, gave due credit to Messrs, James Page and Walter Gooch 
for their valuable efforts at earlier stages in the history of Govern¬ 
ment Farm to save it for the community. Mr. Clark pointed out 
however, that notwithstanding those efforts and the passing of 
Act No. 285 of 1883, the land was subsequently cut up into 
blocks for sale, and would certainly have been disposed of had 
not other influence been brought to bear on the Government of 
the period to prevent this. The Act of 1891, by vesting the 
Park in Trustees, placed it beyond the control of Parliament, 
and thus obtained security of tenure for future generations. 
This Act was the outcome almost entirely of the labors of the 
Section’s F. 6c F. Committee. 
FLINDERS CHASE. 
This somewhat resembles the story of the struggle for the 
National Park at Bclair, only being much more prolonged. It 
began, according to Mr. Dixon, as far back as 189a, two years 
after we had secured the Belair Park. In that year, at the Hob¬ 
art Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement 
of Science, which Professor Pate, Mr. Robin and Mr.^ Dixon 
attended, a motion introduced by the last named asking our 
Government to dedicate the Cape Borda Lighthouse reseive foi 
our objects, was carried. Correspondence and deputations fol¬ 
lowed. On 15th August, 1906, the Secretary, Mr. M. Symonds 
Clark, wrote to the Premier suggesting that eight gentlemen 
should be appointed as Trustees. 1 he Cape borda receive of 
67 square miles was granted, but this was regarded as absurdly 
inadequate, the total area wanted being aOO square miles. I 10 m 
1907 onwards, Mr. E. Ashby rendered valuable assistance by 
interviews and correspondence with the Premiei. On lOtu^itb- 
I ruary 1910, the reserve at the west end of Kangaroo Island was 
gazetted as’a Fauna and Flora Reserve, the area being approx¬ 
imately 146 square miles. 
