FORESTRY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18426, 6 July 1925, Page 6

FORESTRY.

WORK IN THE SCHOOLS. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TILEGEAM.) HAWER-A, July 4. The "Winter Show was concluded tonight' • After a successful season. The attendance wrcs 'largo,' not with standing adverse weather. Among several outstanding features, the ono which attracted keen interest was the schools, forestry section department of primary education, in ■which Taranaki lias given a. load to the Dominion. The work the schools of this province is now in its second year and has tho unqiialified support- of the State- Forest Service, which supplies the seed requir-cd. Tho -children do all the work themselves from sowing the seeds to the; iinal planting out of tho young trees. To ho eligible to compete at tho show, each school must raise at least, two hundred and fifty seedling plants of two or more varieties of useful timber troo.s. Then each school is required to show (a) a tray or box of transplanted seedling plants of at least two varieties raised; (b) fnil notes on the.raising of the seedlings; (c) a.rt essay on some afforestation subject; (d) a general display of any work having a hearing on afforestation as, for example, tho collection of New Zealand timber. Probably the most valuable p.spect of tho whole work is that each ■child whoso parents are willing to find protection for tho seedlings is given at least one hundred to take home and ■plant permanently. The child is encouraged to keen accurate records of the growth of these, with notes,, Similar observations aro made of tho plantings about the school grounds.