Whangarei Harbour Board Afforestation
The engineer to the Whangarei Harbour Board (Mr W. M. Fraser) is to prepare a report for the board showing the acreage of land under the board’s control suitable for the planting of trees. This decision was made by the board yesterday on the motion of Mr R. H. Allan, who said he had become a convert to afforestation, the advantages of which he had seen recently in another part of the Dominion where 40,000 acres of pinus insignis had been planted’. He considered if the board had any vacant land it should be used for tree-planting. One of the best authorities in the Dominion informed, him that pinus insignis were the only kind of pines worth growing. The chairman and Mr K. Stevens thought the engineer should include consideration of the growing of native trees.
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Northern Advocate, 17 March 1944, Page 2
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