Foster's Forest

NZ Truth, Issue 1168, 19 April 1928, Page 4

Foster's Forest

IN the Forestry Department, Frank Foster knows 'a tree when he sees

it. There is, m fact, very little about trees and seeds that is not within that clever head, although m ordinary social conversation you would think he was not much beyond the stage of asking- the woodman to spare that tree for the totally insufficient reason that m youth it sheltered him.

The purchasing and choosing of seeds and timbers also comes under his duties, his rank being that of assistant to the conservator of forests, etc. Hobbies? He is a qualified organist, having taken a degree at the London School of Music, and is also a brilliant pianist.

Youth is still his prerogative, and, as he is busily engaged "lighting- to-mor-row with to-day," we may well expect to hear more of him. Other lighting he sternly suppresses, for if you are inconsiderate enough to set a bush fire going with a dropped fag, it is to Foster that the rangers will bring you — and he, almost m silence — will see that you are haled before authorit3'.