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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4218, 21 January 1921, Page 4

"Planting operations in both the ■ Ncvfjh and the South Islands are being carried on, and we are seeking the co operation of the various nurserymen and nurserymen's associations in the work of stimulating the piivate planting of - eucalypts and conifers by farmers, both for timber plantations and for wind-breaks," said the Director of Forestry (Captain Macintosh Ellis), in discussing the operations of the Department of Forestry the other day. "As settlement stabilises, Aye will find, I believe, that the farmers will pay more attention to the aesthetic value of wind-breaks, and also to the economic advantages of planting out plantations of conifers, etc.-Remark-able results, I may mention, are being obtained from the planting out of pinus insignis in the Canterbuvy district; and recently a man was interviewing me as to planting th^se weill-tried and commercial exotics on a large scale in. the North Island. Companies have also been formed in !.he Nelson district to carry on plant ing operations on a large scale. Ono company is planting a thousand acres of pinus insignis for making tiuit cases; so that the growing of timber by private people is a practical and economical industry in the rominjon. The -Department is not only but anxious to give all \\\r> advice and information in its power to those undertaking such v/ork."