ASHHURST.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) ASHHURST, Aug. 2.
Arbor Day was celebrated in the Ashhurst School on Wednesday last, addresses being given to the various classes on the meaning .of the day and the reasons for its observance. The children of the upper classes were addressed by Mr J. Edmond, a local member of the New Zealand Horticultural Society, who took as his subject “New Zealand Trees as the Friends of Man.” Of especial interest was Mr Edmond’s description of the attitude of the early Maori to the trees amongst which they lived. The wanton destruction of our trees was a national calamity, which could bo mot only by a universal offort to replant trees wherever suitable areas could be found. In doing this we should select those varieties of trees which would supply food for our native birds, whose services to mankind were as great as those of the trees themselves. At the conclusion of his address Mr Edmond offered three prizes to those scholars who produced the three best essays on the subject of his address. A vote of thanks was proposed to Mr Edmond by James Fox and was carried by acclamation. About thirty pupils of the school have signified their indention of planting native trees at their homes,. *
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 10
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212ASHHURST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 10
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