IDENTIFYING OF N.Z. TIMBERS

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28368, 29 August 1957, Page 7

IDENTIFYING OF N.Z. TIMBERS

Project For Thirty Schools

(from Out Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, August 28.

Three Canterbury schools are among 30 selected to work on a project prepared by the New Zealand Timber Merchants* Federation. They are the Linwood, Shirley, and Phillipstown Intermediate Schools.

The project, which is the first of its kind organised by an industry in New Zealand with the assistance of the Education Department, is aimed at teaching the children to recognise the principal timbers grown in this country- Local timber merchants and sawmillers will cooperate with the working classes, and will conduct tours of their premises and of the timber areas. Each child is receiving free of charge a project book containing a short history of timber in New Zealand, and full details of the principal trees. In preparing this and the accompanying notes, the federation decided that no advertising matter should be included. In the three Canterbury schools, five classes with a total membership of 200 pupils will work on the project Throughout New Zealand 66 classes in 30 schools (or a total of 2361 pupils) will work on the project next term. Other South Island schools concerned will be Murchison, Wakefield, Richmond, Brightwater, Nelson Intermediate, Motueka, Ross, Hokitika District High, Greymouth, and Reefton. When the results of these trials are known, the teachers will offer their suggestions as to improvements, and the revised project will be handed over to the Education Department for issue to all New Zealand schools.