WILLOW WEALTH
Mi.shakes made when some of theearlier plantations in Canterbury were started were commented oil byMr R. Nairn at a meeting of the Sclwyn Plantations Board. “One. of the nits takes was to plant wattle,” h e said (as reported in a Christchurch paper.) He declared the- willow, which is exceedingly conspicuous all over Christchurch was a waste product and a oumberer of the earth. Yet a. news item which was published in Saturday’s Star-stated that, a flourishing industry was growing in South Canterbury from the w:)Io<w. There is a factory in Timar-U. turning the timber ir.to crates for cheese. The. willow flourishes, all over New Zealand and ’t will help* to relieve the fiJcffc timber supplies /necessary* for butter boxes if the- cheese crate proves a, willowy success.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3785, 1 August 1932, Page 4
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