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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 November 1925, Page 9

A striking instance of the profit arising from the planting of trees is reported from the South Island. Between 35 and 40 years ago a runholder near Hanmer planted 60 acres in pinus insignis. The mill has just completed its work in the forest, and the runholder’s son, it is stated, has the satisfaction of knowing that the gross profit from these trees is £35,000. The opinion that if all children were given injections of toxin-antitoxin diphtheria would practically he stamped out in New Zealand was expressed by Dr. J. H. Crawshaw, medical officer of health, at Auckland. He stated that this form of prevention was beyond the experimental stage, and it was just a matter of getting the consent of parents to have their children inoculated. “The Health Department is doing its utmost to stamp out the disease,” he continued. “The school medical officers, who are working under the direction of the Health Department, are injecting antitoxin in children where the consent of parents has been granted.”