METAL FROM BOARD'S QUARRY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14757, 24 August 1948, Page 3

METAL FROM BOARD'S QUARRY

WORK ON RECLAIMED

AREA

Planting Of Trees In

Wairoa District

Suitable Gum To Be Grown

Reporting to the monthly meeting of the Tauranga Harbour Board, the foreman (Mr C. M. F. Hayman) stated that a punt load of metal had been brought from the quarry and spread in Chapel Street so as to keep the road open for the timber carting. The launch Reo had been taken off the slip and was at present being used to inspect all moorings in the various protected anchorage areas.

The proper alignment of Chapel Street was to be set out and some filling would be necessary before the metal could bo spread. Arrangements had 1 been made to level the

rough area and this work would be started as soon as the bulldozer was available.

A trip had been made to Taupo area, the foreman added, and a quantity of young trees were procured and these had been planted cut on Pani Pani.

It was intended to plant some pinus radiata trees on the board’s section near the Wairoa River Bridge, but on inspection it was found that there was not a road fence. This meant that if the trees were planted without a fence to protect them from wandering stock they would probably not survive. There was a macrocarpa tree at the Pilot House Reserve v/hich should be taken down and v/ould provide posts. This fence could be constructed when the staff was not busy and the section could be planted next season.

The foreman recommended that authority should be given for the work to be done. The works committee recommended that instead of planting pinus radiata seedlings on the section at Wairoa, a suitable gum should be grown and that the foreman should be authorised to fell the macrocarpa tree at the Pilot Reserve to provide the necessary posts to erect a fence on the road line. The committee also recommended that it should be left in the hands of the chairman and secretary to arrange for seedlings for planting next year. Explaining the reason for the committee’s recommendation, the chairman said it would be most dangerous to plant pinus radiata trees in that particular area because of the fire risk. Gum trees would not burn and wpuld be of use to the board in the future. The section comprised about four acres. With pine trees, ten years growth could “go up in smoke” in half-an-hour.