AFFORESTATION PROJECT
LARGE SCHEME FOR BAY OF PLENTY I Per Fieaa Association. 1 WELLINGTON. June 7. Details of a large afforestation project on 20,000 acres of Crown land near Te Puke in the Bay of Plenty district were announced by the Minister of Lands and Commissioner of State Forests, Hon. F. Langstone, today. The Minister stated that the State forest service had in sight a further 12,000 acres, making a total area of 32,000 acres to be worked as a single forest unit.
Mr. Langstone said the Pongakawa tobacco settlement in Pongakawa Valley, would be continued as a Government tobacco plantation and in conjunction with it a forest nursery would be formed in the valley, where from three to five million trees would be raised annually for the next six years at least. These trees would be used to plant the area of slightly more than 20,00 acres of Crown land now lying vacant between the Pongakawa and Herepuru Streams. The Minister added that the scheme was the first attempt in the pumice country to associate large scale forestry activities with more intensive forms of agriculture.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19370608.2.82
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 8
Word Count
186AFFORESTATION PROJECT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 8
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in