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Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 10

The greatest perils which will face this Dominion in the future are, in the first place, too great dependence upon the Government to undertake tasks which are more appropriate for individual enterprise and the employment of individual capital, and in the second place the drift of her population from the countryside into the towns. The former threatens to kill New Zealand’s personal initiative and sound industrial development, the latter to kill New Zealand herself. These views were expressed by his Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) in a recent address at the Wellington Rotary Club. Among the exports shipped direct from New Plymouth by the lonic were 35; tons measurement of large tree ferns being forwarded to England, France, and other parts of (says the News). This shipment of tree ferns is stated to be the largest ever sent from the Dominion. The timber used in packing the ferns was mostly pinus inignis, over 2000 feet being used. The ferns, many of which were 10 to 12 feet high, were being shipped by a firm which stated that the consignment had been made possible only by the opportunity of direct shipment offered by the port of New Plymouth.