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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22112, 7 June 1937, Page 8

An interesting illustration of the effect of economic conditions on school children was given by an Invercargill school teacher. During the years of the depression, he said, children took particular care of their own property, such as text books, stationery, maps, and so on, which they invariably collected at the end of the day and took home, knowing that tivnes were precarious; but now that better times were ironing out the furrows on the parental brow the same books, stationery, and maps were often mislaid or left behind in the classroom, and teachers more often found themselves the custodians of lost property. To save thousands of acres of good pasturage on the west coast of the Auckland district from obliteration, the Public Works Department is increasing its activities in the reclamation of sand-dune areas. For some years the method followed has been to plant marram grass to arrest the drift of sand, and then to enrich the areas by planting lupins. Finally trees are planted under the afforestation schemes. It is expected that about 750,000 pine trees will be planted on part of the converted areas in the Woodhill-Heiensville district. The trees planted some years ago have reached a height of 16 to 20 feet. Afforestation, is also proceeding at Waiuku-