More nails in trees
Another 500 nails have been found and removed from trees marked for milling in the Charleston State Forest since March 18. This brings to about 1500 the number of nails found in trees in the forest since last August. So far only about an eighth of the number of Charleston trees scheduled to be felled and milled had been processed, said the
assistant Conservator of Forests for Nelson (Mr R. E. J. Wylie) yesterday. Detective Sergeant T. J. Gorman, of the Greymouth police, said that no sufficient evidence pointing to any person or group as being responsible for planting the nails had been found so far. A charge of wilful damage could be laid against any offender or offenders. If someone was injured
working with timber that had been nailed the charge could be more serious. The police have a note sent to the Forest Service, signed “Laurex”, saying that trees in the Charles-, ton forest have been nailed by the note’s author. The Forest Service now employs two men using metal detectors to find and remove nails from saw logs.
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