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Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 166, 16 July 1920, Page 4

The risk of fir© deters mony farmers from planting-out trees on an extensive scale. Sir David Hutcfcens, an experf'imported by the N.Z. Government, says: "The risk of fire in a plantation where proper precautions are taken is no greater than of a house in a town vfliere there is a fir» brigade.'' A lending fire insurance office, recognising this fact, has ' agreed to insure plantations on the lines submitted by owners, viz., theactual cost of planting., etc., plus compound interes^, upkeep, and rent, the prospective value to bo at the-, risk of owners. Make a start this year. Writ© me to-day for illustrated booklet ,on commercial forestry, post free.—H. G. Kingsland, Forestry Specialist, Wakefield, Nelson.—Advt.

We are still past masters in the art. of mattress making. Our stocks are made of the be&t material p^oourable* —Geo. Gibson.—Ad7t.