NATIVE TREES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2884, 23 September 1916, Page 11

NATIVE TREES

•r < _ TO BEAUTIFY THE CITY. A further deputation from hhe New Zealand Forest and Bird Protection Society waited on the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) and several councillors at. the Town Hall last evening. Mr. Treadwell (president of the society) introduced the deputation comprising Professors Thomson, Kirk, Hutchens, and Dr. Cockayne,' and Messrs. , Morgan, Phillips-Turner and Hamilton." The members_p_f the deputation wore received by the Mayor, Councillor .Frost (chairman of Reserves Committee), Mr. Morton (City Engineer), Mr. GJen (Superin.tfindent , Botanical Gardens), Mr. Hill (Forester), Councillor Thompson, and Mr. Patterson (As-sistant-City Engineer). .The deputation was the outcome of one that waited on the Mayor earlier in the week. The idea was to interest tho council in the planting of a gully in the Botanical Gardens with native flora, and also'to emphasise the fact that other gullies in the locality could be put to tho samo purposq. These were oscellent.i}laC£s for rearing plants. It was also desired that the council should plant native trees in connection with the forestry work on the Town Belt. Councillor Frost produced a statement setting out. the large number of native trees that had recently been planted on the Town Bolt. A number of pine trees had been planted for tho protection of young mvtivo trees, until they are sufficiently -matured to stand rough weathSr; when the native treos are stronger the pine trees will bo "thinned out and the Bolt, whon completed, will carry a good percentage of trees. Mr. Luke said that tho council desired to encourage the planting of native trees, not only in the Botanical Gardens, but on the Town Bolt. On the invitation of the council, momberß of the deputation will accompany counoillors on a visit to the Botanical Gardens and to tho Town Bolt with tho viow of deciding on a practical schoine.