BARE ROADS
Highways Without Trees
“It may be of interest to mention that wifhin recent years a Roads Beautifying Society has been formed in England for the purpose of promoting the adornment of the highways by the skilful planting of well-selected trees and shrubs,” remarked Mr. J. Tait, Superintendent of Reserves at Oamaru, in the course of a paper read to the Conference of Park Superintendents at the Dominion Farmers’ Institute yesterday.
“Colonel Ashley, Minister of Transport, is president, and the highway authorities generally are supporting its work in making its roads more pleasing to the wayfarer,” he said. “There is great scope in New Zealand for a similar association —the lack of trees along the country roads immediately strikes the visitor from abroad, and though we are mainly concerned with the beautifying of our towns, it is our duty to stimulate interest in all that would create beauty. “In the words of the poet Whittier: Give fools their gold and knaves their
power. Let fortunes bubbles rise and fall. Who sows a field or trains a flower.
Or plants a tree is more than all.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 10
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186BARE ROADS Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 105, 28 January 1931, Page 10
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