TREE PLANTING.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 79, 15 March 1883, Page 3

TREE PLANTING.

From the little advantage that is taken of the Acts that encourage the planting of forest trees, it would almost appear as if settler* were either totally unaware of the existence of those Acts, or that tbe Acts themselves did not bold out sufficient inducements to anything like extensive tree planting. Although for a number of years settlers have been promised land orders to the amount of £4 for every acre of trees they may nlease to embellish their homesteads with, strange to say that during the whole time only twenty-five orders have been issued. The number of acres planted have been 1260, of which 835 are in Canterbury, 301 in Otago, aud 124 inHawke's Bay. During the last year, only seven orders have been issued, representing 220 acres 1 rood 24 perches. When is it remembered that every acre planted adds materially to the value of a farm, it is surprising that greater advantage has not been taken of the provisions of the Acts.— N.Z. Settler.

An old hachelor says, "It is all nonsense to pretend that love is blind. I never yet knew a man in love that did not see ten times as muoh in his sweetheart as I could.