WAIMAKARIRI EXAMPLE
"But for the Waimakariri River Trust's works, damage running into thousands of pounds would have occurred." Thus reports a Press Association telegram from Christchureh, concerning a flood, "the worst since 1927," that has just swept down the Waimakariri. The Waimakariri River Trust is not only a riparian-protec-tive body; it is also a tree-planter on a big plan. It is the only local body or public organisation (outside of the Forest Service, which represents the State) that has intelligently utilised relief labour in planting trees on a large commercial scale—trees that will remain a permanent asset whether regarded as regulators of waterflow or as plantations for rotational commercial use. If the local bodies of the Wellington district, including the Water, River, and Harbour Boards, were to show the same combination and energy as Christchureh and Canterbury have shown, the slow-moving afforestation of deforested areas in the higher Hutt Valley could be expedited with benefit to all interests. There is reason to hope that the Mayor of Wellington will move in the matter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 8
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173WAIMAKARIRI EXAMPLE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 8
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