The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1914. ARBOR DAY.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 331, 17 July 1914, Page 4

The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1914. ARBOR DAY.

ONCE again Arbor Day has come and gone without other than the casual notice of the residents of Fe Awamutu, which is as regrettable as it is their discredit. When the local Chamber of Commerce drafted up a list of proposed public holidays, the suggestion was made that Arbor Day be observed as a business holiday, but the proposal was rejected at the hands of the business people concerned. Fiiis was to be deplored, as with a general holiday, the whole town could have joined in and carried out a scheme of tree planting in some suitable locality. But for another year Arbor Day has passed, and with it has passed still another opportunity whereby the citizens, by concerted effort, could have set in train a scheme for the beautifying of some public reserve or public highway in the residential quarters of the town. By devoting this one day in every year citizens may render good service to themselves. What it would mean to the town where a general scheme of tree planting taken in hand has not yet been realised. The lesson has yet to be learnt, and undoubtedly the time will be when such opportunities will be availed of. In passing there is one suggestion, 'made through our correspondence columns recently, .that the school children should plant a shelter belt of ornamental shrubs at the recently acquired cemetery site. This suggestion is one deserving of encouragement, although it does not seem altogether reasonable that this work should devolve entirely upon the school children. Rather, we think the whole community should share in such a labour, and we hope that every resident, in some measure or other, will give ready assistance to assure the satisfactory completion of this undertaking.