ELECTRIC POWER POLES.
SUPPLIES FOR DOMINION. TREE PLANTING NECESSARY. [BY ;.ELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Wednesday. In his presidential address at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Forestry League, Sir James G. Wilson ' said the importance of planting trees was brought forcibly before them now that Electric Power Boards were daily entering into contracts for the supply of poles. " Not a day should be lost," he said, "in making a start, to plant trees suitable for this purpose. We have only one native species which we can use, silver pine, but it is scarce and does not stand the same strain as the eucalypts used, although quite suitable for general purposes. It is, however, scarce, and that of the West Coast of the South Island is almost worked out. The State, in this matter,' should be the pioneers.' It. is doubtful if the climate of much of New Zealand is suitable for,the growth of the best species for pole purposes, but there must be a large area in the North suitable, and only awaiting planting. There have been so many disappointments when imported Australian poles have been used, that the utmost care is necessary to ascertain the proper varieties to grow."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18455, 19 July 1923, Page 8
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