Tree Planting
Sir,—New Zealand is at last recognising the value of shrubs and trees; much planting has been done this season and more is planned in the near future. I wish to point out how utterly futile this will prove unless the trees get proper attention until they are established—say. for the first three vearS). For this reason many streets in Wanganui, with dead and dying trees, furnish dismal examples of waste of time and money. About two years ngo Lord Galway, by planting an oak tree, inaugurated a scheme for beautifying the Great North Road and during his address drew particular attention to the need of caring for the trees after they were planted. The tree . he planted has died and of the flowering gums lining the road beyond, planted soon after, few have survived and not one is thriving. . I suggest that with very little training some of the unemployed unfitted for hard work could be permanently and profitably used as caretakers of the trees. I write because I have failed, to see this point stressed by gny previous correspondence.-! am, etc., BARTON. Wanganui, September 7.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 296, 10 September 1938, Page 13
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