TREE PLANTING.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1922, Page 4

TREE PLANTING.

primarX instruction. A suggestoin made by the State Sorest Service that a few trees should bo planted in the local school grounds was enthusiastically met by the School Committee and the teaching staff, and advantage was .taken of the visit of Messrs C. E. Foweraker of »he Biological Department of Canterbury College, and W. T. Morrison, Couservator of Forests for the Otago region (through. tlie courtesy of the Rector (Mr Irvine) to attend the State School and deliver short addresses to the children on the subject of forestry. Mr Foweraker dealt' briefly with thp character of the native forests, explaining that many forest communities of New Zealand belong to the class designated temperate ram forests. He described how the presence of rain’ forests, such as our West Coast forests, is due to an equable climate with the rainfall 1 , spread over all the year, and how suck forests are very different from those of Europe and North America, lie explained the general composition of .the typical Westland forest, and pointed out the great danger.,of damage to regeneration by fires in work’ed out areas.. Mr Morrinson dealt with tho subject from, an afforestation point of view, stressing tile suitability of New Zealand' as it whole for the well being of trees. He mentioned that this was evidence not only by the native forests lint by the ease with which any species of the cold or warmer temperate regions call be grown throughout the Dominion. He explained the process of planting and afterwards gave the senior hoys a practical demonstration of correct planting. Each address was attentively listened to by the scholars, who ■ appeared to be deeply interested' in the subject.