3000 TREES FOR CHRISTMAS
Demand Increasing
Each Year
More than 3000 Christmas trees will be available to the public of Christchurch this year. The New Zealand Forest Service has supplied 600, and the City Council reserves department expects orders for 2500. Last year the Forest Service sold 300 trees at its offices in Christchurch, but because of the amount of work involved and the overwhelming demand the job has been tendered for by a city retail store this year. Mr H. G. Gilpin, director of the Reserves Department, said that the council sold seedlings and thinnings to sports bodies and various institutions in the city. There was no question of cutting down or disfiguring good trees. The Forest Service had made it a policy to provide- the public with Christmas trees, rather than have plantations damaged and good trees ruined, said an official of the service.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29071, 7 December 1959, Page 17
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1463000 TREES FOR CHRISTMAS Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29071, 7 December 1959, Page 17
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