PLANT TREES?

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 58, Issue 4107, 2 March 1949, Page 6

PLANT TREES?

ALONG DRAIN BANKS MR C. W. PARFITT’S IDEA DRAINAGE BOARD DISCUSSION The opinion that the sides of all drains would have to be planted with trees was expressed by Mr C. W. Parfitt, the chairman, at Wednesday's meeting of the Hauraki Plains West Drainage Board. He considered that all drains' would become blocked with poa aquatica, if there were no trees along the drains. Mr T. McLean stated that drains could not be maintained when they were lined with trees. There was better drainage, said Mr Parfitt, from shaded drains than from drains that were filled with poa Where there were trees along the drain, he added, there was no poa aquatica. Mr McLean considered that the trees were more of a menace than poa aquatica. Poa aquatica, he said, could be cleared out, but trees could not be. Where a drain was shaded by a macrocarpa hedge it would function whether it was kept clean or not. Mr D. Waite said that the movement of the trees would bring the bottom of the drain up. INCORRECT NAME GLYCERIA AQUATICA The correct name for the weed referred to .by Mr C. W. Parfitt as poa aquatica was recently stated to be glyceria aquatica by Mr G. L. Banfield, instructor in agricuhu-re, Thames.