The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. SATURDAY, JANUARY 31. AFFORESTATION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 January 1914, Page 3

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. SATURDAY, JANUARY 31. AFFORESTATION.

ulk importanee of afforestation 10 J\ew Zealand in jmrticular has been touched uixjii jii those columns on several occasions. Levin ami districl was set lied in very recent miles, but already a marked diminution is apparent in the quanlilies of milling- timber available, and even firewood grows scarcer and dearer, though Levin's age is less than a quarter of a century of years. apart Irom this district's need for remedial planting of lupins (and eventually stronger trees) 111 tile sand areas, it is time for undertaking a settled policy of afforestation, lesi eventually this seaboard be deprived of its present prolific rain hill, and in so doing lose its principal key to successful eiforf in the producing of butter and other produce of the dairy. it is io the. credit of New Zealand thai this young country was the lirst antipodean colony to face the problem of afforestation, but n is to be hoped that this primal distinction will not be (teemed sufficient excuse for a limitation of present endeavours. There is real need and urgent need for a consistently pursued policy of afforestation by private owners as well as by the State. At AVaikauae a good deal of helpful work lo this end has been done by .Mr \V. 11. Eield, ana around Levin die L'rouse brothers have been prominent in this regard, but generally speaking there is room for much more activity in this respect. We shall return to the discussion of the general aspect of alTorestation in a future issue of The Chronicle.