SELWYN PLANTATIONS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18802, 21 September 1926, Page 4

SELWYN PLANTATIONS.

MEETING OF THE BOARD. A meeting of the Selwyn Plantation Board was held yesterday, Mr S. A. Staples presiding in the absence of the chairman. Tho Methodist Orphanage wrote thanking the Board for its gift of a- truck of firewood.

Tho Finance Co'.nmitteo reported that it bad been decidad to communicate with the Education Board stating that in the meantime it had been resolved, if agreeable to them to enter into a lease of tho reserve at New Brighton for twelve months, pending legislation authorising the Selwyn Board to°lease to the Education Board under certain conditions the area, referred to. The superintendent, Mr K..G. reported that the transplanting of 360,000 voung trees bad been carried out, the followimz one and two-yearoia eeedhngs being dealt with:-P. Unguis SUA Oregon 112 000 P. Pouderosa '28,000, and P. Laricio "GOOO. An additional quarter of a million plants bad still to be put into lines Ibore were quite sufficient trees in stock to fulnl next season's projected planting echorne. About 218,000 trc<3 had beon dispatched to various reserves and public bodies in connexion with plantation extension. Some thousands of Oregon find cupressus macrocarpa had atill to be planted out his season. Tho incomplete area planted cut this year amounted to 815 acres A fair proportion of tbo acreage was worked on the ?e- a fforestation «ctome in which natural regeneration was playing an important part. Present indications were for a very successful season. Good headway was being made v.-itb the milling of Darfiold plantation Only fair results were obtained from tho carrot and strychnine poisoning, but a further effort would be made at an early date to rid the un-netted enclosure of rabbits.