AFFORESTATON WORK
WAIKATO SAND DUNES
LARCH AREAS RECLAIMED
Rapid progress has been made io the work of consolidating and reclaiming some 5000 acres of shifting sand dunes, which, until a few years ago. seemed destined to overwhelm hundreds if acres of rich dairying land at the north Waikato Heads.
Since May, 1932, nearly 4000 acres have been consolidated by marram grass and lupin planting, and now. under the supervision of forestry experts, the whole area is being planted with trees.
More than 100 employees of the Public Works Department are encamped at Otaua and Maioro. Two nurseries have been established for rearing seedling pine trees, and to date nearly a million trees, over an area of some 750 acres, have been planted out.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 8
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123AFFORESTATON WORK Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 8
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