GROW GOOD TREES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17452, 12 May 1922, Page 12

GROW GOOD TREES.

An. interesting Stalk on. timbers was given to members of ' the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce this week by .Mr S. E: Whittaker. The shaker produced a large number of samples of English, Australian and JN'ew Zealand woods, and demonstrated the values in the Dominion woods as Compared with those of other lands. Amongst trees he named as most suitable and profitable* for growth in New Zealand were mangaeo, ash, oak, birch, and elm. The Speaker urged that the' Government should be' pressed in reafforestation efforts to plant the best, trees. Only trees that would be worth whita commercially as well as scientifically, whilst leaving a. legacy for future generations. New Zealand Was fast being denuded. of its. forests, and reafforestation was a national necessity. Ash, oak, elm, and birch grew; here better than the ;01d Land, and in far less time. It seemed a shame, that timbere of poorer classes and of little marketable value should be grown, when trees that would bring 2& 6d per superficial "foot could be planted. • The growing of good trees would in future *be far ~ more profitable than any other product of the land.