PLANTING OF TREES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 12 September 1933, Page 6

PLANTING OF TREES.

OPPORTUNITIES ON AVEST COAST.

“Along the AA 7 est Coast there is to be seen much land not suitable for the production of butterfat, but which is suitable for the growing of trees,” said Mr F. J. Nathan, when speaking at yesterday’s meeting of the Palmerston North Rotary Club. He said he had been glad to see that the City Council was taking an interest in the growing of trees. Practically the whole of the land from Paekakariki northwards could be used for the growing of soft wood trees for which New Zealand would be crying out in a few years, Mr Nathan proceeded. AA’hat better could be done with that land than to have it under cultivation in growing trees, to have the nurseries there and the unemployed doing work that would show a definite return in 20, 30, or 40 years? Thousands of men were being paid a bare living wage doing work that could never l>e reproductive—to get something for something done —hut he thought that there would be a great improvement if they were employed along the lines he had indicated. If that were so the children growing up now might not accuse us of leaving them with a debt of £200,000,000 for them and their children to pay off.