WORK FOR YOUTHS
AFFORESTATION CAMP. ( VICEREGAL INSPECTION ’ ' ! , .! (Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, this day. ' Lord Bledisloe visited a youths afforestation camp at Kaitoke this morning, and was welcomed by a large gathering of country people. *i-Wj2»H‘ conditions were not too favorabT®JLHis Excellency had an opoDiiispccting a nursery where <16,000, trees- \ad been planted by the boys in camp, the seed being collected when the camp commenced operations last year, and germinated in a city nursery. These trees will be planted out next year on waste sand areas which have already been planted in marram .-grass. * Lord Bledisloe expressed hearty appreciation of iho work, and referred to the benefits which would accrue from the afforestation scheme.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18499, 11 September 1934, Page 11
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114WORK FOR YOUTHS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18499, 11 September 1934, Page 11
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