THE NATIONAL PARK. 
AN APPRECIATION. 
After visiting- the National Park last February, Sir 
William Cullen, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New South 
Wales, wrote as follows:— 
“'flic work which the Board and its supporters have 
in hand may seem lo have made little mark for the time 
being upon the physical surface of your domain, though 
to me it looks as though you had done wonders with the 
funds at your disposal. But you arc preserving for future 
generations that which it is infinitely easier to destroy or 
spoil than it could ever be to restore if once sacrificed. 
“Your people will have in this reserve a wealth of 
scenery, singularly grand and beautiful, and a treasure of 
wild growth in forest and moorland, which will be the 
envy of other communities whom Nature has favoured as 
well, but whose rulers have been forced to endeavour to 
reconstruct, after generations of wastage, those simple and 
charming things which Nature only can furnish in perfec¬ 
tion. Your citizens of the future will find here an unspoilt 
region in which the student of natural science will have 
resources at hand in abundant variety, and your growing 
children will be able to revel in the delights of open spaces 
where the fascinations of trees and flowers and birds and 
animals are accessible in rich profusion. For your 
National Park will in time grow in such resources under 
your fostering care, and your wilderness of mountain top 
and torrent, your glistening lakes and flowering hollows, 
will become more and more accessible by path-making as 
the generations progress.” 
