Wise Words from Foxton.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 July 1910, Page 4

Wise Words from Foxton.

* PLANTING SANDY PLACES,

At Koxton, on Arbor Day, the chairnian of the Koxton Jlarbour Hoard, .Mr Hennessv, speaking at the Arbor Day celebration at the local school, suggested (says the Afa-inawatu Herald) that 011' a uitiire occasion the children should be asked to celebrate the day by pla-ir-ing waste sand areas with marrim grass. One plant will cowr three st|uarc feet of land. I'rov' ded temporary shellter were alf 1. .'ed He plants, and say each ehiid plant*i inly half-a-dozen roots, then lci itiply this number -y tlree hundred and it will he seen that a u-,st area could be • -ch..i>ii t.v the "»oldren in one effj-;. unci in t--in> beautified. We !Vd s i-e t) 0 chi.dren would • e <!0..tr1.t«.r < tn'eitake the work and it would he oelebratinn; 1 lie *iv in 11,s * sense. <1 the'- i<h j <v

defoiestali') i ms til<n pb,ee too d'ay is set • jar: to n-plaut trees I fclia.t once covered the land. In this locality the sea, as it recedes, heaps up the sand and the drift proceeds inland covering up fertile conn-try. We must deal wiitili the sand before we can beautify. The best method of doing this is by first planting areas with grass and Lupin, [t is provable that the "Government in the near future will compel owners of land to take measures to stop the drift 011 'tilio lands they occupy, hut the people themselves must move in the direction of dealing with public endowments, "lid as the children have an interest in. such land it matin-ally follows that tliev would ~l.idly help to .reclaim and beautify it. We ihopo flint Mr Hen newsy's suggestion will boar frniifc next year.