NO TREES AVAILABLE THIS YEAR

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21808, 13 June 1936, Page 14

NO TREES AVAILABLE THIS YEAR

PROGRESS LEAGUE’S SCHEME OF DISTRIBUTION For the last few years the Canterbury Progress League has annually distributed trees for planting to local bodies, farmers, and others. These-have been obtained from the surplus stocks of the State Forestry Department, but this year when the secretary of the league, Mr P. R. Climie, went to Wellington he found on interviewing heads of the department that »o trees would be available this year. Mr Climie, who returned from Wellington yesterday, said that the number of trees distributed had been increasing for several years, and last year had amounted to 100,000. It was to be regretted that the department had no surplus stocks this year, bqt it was hoped that the distribution would be resumed in future years. The aim was to encourage the planting of trees and to provide employment. The trees that have been distributed include prickly cone pine, Douglas fir, western red cedar, macrocarpa, pinus insignis, and Engelman’s spruce. The department has paid the cost of transport and has charged 2s a hundred trees to cover the cost of lifting and packing. This amount has been charged by the league to those who receive the trees.